• DocumentCode
    3592163
  • Title

    User-oriented universal design in parks of urban waterfronts

  • Author

    Park, Heon Chol ; Kondo, Takeo

  • Author_Institution
    Graduate sch. of Oceanic Archit. & Eng., Nihon Univ., Chiba, Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    1029
  • Abstract
    Affordance concept is applied to understand the relation between users´ behaviors and affordances of marine environments and supports the universal design. Marine environments have not only several positive action possibilities, but also behavior constraints. Users´ preferences on the environments share similarities and show differences.
  • Keywords
    oceanography; planning; marine environment; positive action possibility; urban waterfront park; user-oriented universal design; users behavior; Aging; Concrete; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Guidelines; Hazards; Manufacturing; Product design; Transportation; Usability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    OCEANS '04. MTTS/IEEE TECHNO-OCEAN '04
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8669-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405651
  • Filename
    1405651