Design of Cooking Stove for Visually Impaired Ravishankar R.1, Kumar Sudhindra2, Majumdar Sukanta3 1M. Sc. [Engg.] Student, Product Design Centre, M.S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 560 054 2Professor, Product Design Centre, M.S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 560 054 3 Assistant Professor, Product Design Centre, M.S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, 560 054 Online published on 18 February, 2020. Abstract Very less products are available in market specifically for the visually impaired. Some equipment for mobility, Braille for reading and other special products can be found, but household products and other commodities from abroad are not easily available because of high cost and a lack of awareness of availability. The impact of kitchen appliances in day to day life is high for the visually impaired people. They face various kinds of hazardous situations at the time of cooking with existing types of cooking stoves available in the market. So there is a scope to introduce a new type of cooking stove for this segment of the market. The aim of this project was to design a cooking stove for visually impaired for safe cooking. The process of the project had many stages, which includes understanding of problems of existing products and the usage of features; literature survey and market study to identify the user's desires, conversion of user voice into technical voice through Quality Function Deployment and finalization of design outlines in the form of Product Design Specification. Concepts were generated based on the requirements and modeling was done using ALIAS and Bunk Speed Hyper shot. Out of five concepts one concept was selected using user feedback. Detailing of selected concept was done in Auto CAD software. A working prototype was developed in order to validate the concept. The usability issues were checked by the users by using this working prototype. Top Keywords Cooking Stove, Blind, Safety. Top |