Yi-Tsu Peng, Po-Hsien Lin, Rungtai Lin
(Graduate School of Creative Industry Design, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan)

 

 

Abstract: There are few toilets exclusively for children in many public spaces, especially those who are mainly designed for children such as playground, Children Theater, zoo, or recreation area in the park. This is quite a strange phenomenon but few people concern about it. It seems normal that children were deemed to be accessories of adults. This study is thinking about such issue and composing by two parts: Deliberation for the necessity of children toilet in the public space where children are main users as universal design mention and, conclusion of basic design principle for children toilet through the interactive consideration of human factor engineering, Kansei design, and public space design. It is based on the information of literature research and observation interview. There are some relevant suggestions from Kansei thinking were approved too.

 

 

Key words: children toilet, public space, universal design, ergonomics design, Kansei design