Human-Centered System Design for an Aging Population: An Experimental Study of Footwear Design

Population projections indicate that by 2050, people aged 65+ will account for 25% of the population in Europe and Northern America, and the number of people aged 80+ will triple to 426 million. With technological and biomedical advances, people now expect to live not only longer, but also better, d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Sheng-Hung
Other Authors: de Weck, Olivier L.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147249
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-5823