Design Improvement Of Corner Chair For Cerebral Palsy Kid

Harun, Nur Hanis (2018) Design Improvement Of Corner Chair For Cerebral Palsy Kid. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This project is aimed to design a new concept of corner chair for Cerebral Palsy (CP) kids and distinguish this new design with the commercial corner chair which available in the market and the previous corner chair.The reason why was the new concept is designed because not all the commercial corner chair is portable and mobile. Portability is just to ease the user to bring the corner chair from one to location to another location just like from Rehabilitation Unit to their home.This project has collaborated with Unit Pemulihan Cara Kerja,Hospital Melaka.The occupational therapist gave their feedbacks about the previous corner chair.The feedbacks gave was analyzed and generated new concepts of corner chair.The price of the current corner chair which available in the market is too expensive and local parent mostly not afford to own a corner chair in order to continue the rehabilitation activity at home.By having the new design concept,the fabrication cost is reduced.The estimated cost is way cheaper compared to the current corner chair which are available in the market.The objectives of this project were proposed a new design of corner chair that can meet the needs from the therapist and cerebral palsy parent.Functional prototype has been developed and fabricated by using suitable method and material.And having a field test on the target user and feedbacks of the new product has gathered.As mentioned earlier,the author has gathered several feedbacks and designed a new concept of the corner chair.New design concepts’ process was done by generated several types of concept such as Lego concept,Flat folding concept,Retractable belt concept and Origami concept and the Origami concept design has selected.The selected design has been undergone solid modelling process by using engineering related design software.Solid modelling was used and proved the design concept.After solid modelling has been done,the corner chair has been fabricated using suitable material.The fabricated corner chair has been undergone the field test and collected several feedbacks about the new product.The therapist has given positive feedbacks that the corner chair has exceed their expectation.And the therapist also gave some suggestion on improvement towards the design of the corner chair.Lastly,this project has successfully fabricated and fulfill the requirements from the caretaker and CP parent.

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