Embraccess: Redesigning the Flying Experience for Passengers with Limited Mobility
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Embraer, the Brazilian airline manufacturer, decided to partner with Stanford University and the University of Sao Paulo to solve the problem of improving the entire air travel experience for persons with limited mobility. In collaboration, we started this journey toward a solution through extensive needfinding and benchmarking. The needfinding centered on conducting user interviews for both the disabled passenger and the flight crew, while benchmarking focused on analyzing analogous situations, patents, regulations, and current concepts and solutions in place today. We then went through numerous prototyping cycles, gathering feedback from users as well as more information as we moved forward. Eventually we created 2 products that completely disrupt a wheelchair user's flying experience - a platform for storing their wheelchair that ensures it will arrive safely at their destination and a redesigned aisle wheelchair that provides increased comfort and support as our user moves thorough the cabin.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | 2014 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Bargar, Clifford |
|---|---|
| Author | Barrera, Maria |
| Author | Hoinville, Laura |
| Author | Kok, Guilherme |
| Author | Mota, Amanda |
| Author | Durão, Luiz |
| Author | Aquino, Rodrigo |
| Contributor | Shear, Riley |
| Contributor | Karol, Robert |
| Contributor | Finley, Erika |
| Sponsor | Embraer |
Subjects
| Subject | wheelchair |
|---|---|
| Subject | flying |
| Subject | aircraft |
| Subject | airplanes |
| Subject | accessibility |
| Subject | airplane interior |
| Subject | wheelchair storage |
| Subject | aisle wheelchair |
| Subject | embraer |
| Subject | aviation |
| Subject | mechanical engineering |
| Subject | aluminum |
| Genre | Student project report |
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- Bargar, Clifford; Barrera, Maria; Hoinville, Laura; Kok, Guilherme; Mota, Amanda; Durão, Luiz; Aquino, Rodrigo; Shear, Riley; Karol, Robert; and Finley, Erika. (2014). Embraccess: Redesigning the Flying Experience for Passengers with Limited Mobility. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/dz214cf9700
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ME310 Project Based Engineering Design
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