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Friday, April 23, 1976
University Dailly Kansan
Students design new utensils for handicapped
Uses a knife, spoon or fork to eat a meal presents no problem for most people. But for those with rheumatoid arthritis, it can be a painful or futile experience.
To aid arthropathic people in feeding themselves, students in an industrial and interior design class at the University of Kansas have developed self-help eating
The utensils are among several industrial and interior design projects developed and built by KU students to meet the needs of small, specific use cases. For example, a fiber glass packing case for wheelchairs and a kitchen accessible to persons in wheelchairs.
"WE ARE DESIGNING for people," William Bullock, assistant professor of design and the project's director, said Tuesday. "We try to look at people and them determine their needs, some of which are very different from those of the designer."
sullock said that when designing for a need, a designer must look at more than the technical and manufacturing requirements. A design that might function very well and is technically sound will be rejected by potential users because it is displacing or strange to him, he said.
Psychological aspects of a design are also very important, Bullock said. For this
Clas Amilson, deputy chief of the United Nations Office of Crime Prevention, will speak at 3 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union
Crime treatment discussed
Amilon will discuss the "Transnational Concerns in Prevention and Treatment of Offenders" and may also comment on his participation in the International Congress on Crime and Delinquency held last September in Geneva, Switzerland.
The speech, sponsored by the School of Social Welfare, will be followed by an open session.
Amilon was formerly the director of the Department of Treatment and Security in Sweden. He plans to return to that post in June.
Amilon toured Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary yesterday and compared it with Kumla Institute, the largest maximum security prison in Sweden.
reason, he has his students talk to several sources before beginning even preliminary essays.
"They look at existing designs and consult technical users, technical experts and personnel."
Amilon said the Swedish institute was considerably smaller and the inmates there had a shorter average sentence than offenders in prisons in the United States.
IN DESIGNING THE utensils, for example, the students talked with Jane and her students about the cupacultural therapy, who explained the nature of arthritic ailments to them. Her explanation of what movements arthritics used in demonstrating the utensils was basic in their design.
Bullock's students also consulted Underwood in designing a kitchen that could be used by persons confined to wheelchairs. Bullock was quick to point out, however, that kitchen's design also would facilitate patients who weren't physically disabled.
Students had to consider several factors, such as space for a wheelchair to pivot and room under the sink for the chair. Work surfaces and shelves had to be shallower and placed within an accessible range of the kitchen with adjacent or adjacent to cooking areas also was needed.
"WE LOOK AT existing kitchens for the physically disabled," he said. "Most of them were stark and looked like machine kitchen, but mostly easily disabled have aesthetic needs, too."
Another recent class project was the construction of a fiber glass packing case for a wheelchair. The case can be used to transport the wheelchair to protect it during airline travel.
Jim Long, Shawne Mission senior who worked on the project, said the kitchen's "brainchild" was a sink.
For this project, the students consulted several airline companies baggage and cargo fees and size requirements. Other factors considered were strength of the case, ease of loading and handling, locking and opening, and the sizes of existing collapsible wheelchairs.
EVEN THOUGH MOST of the articles developed in KU's industrial and interior design classes will never be manufactured on a large scale, Bullock said, they represent an extremely important part of each student's training.
"Most of the work industrial designers do is for other people," Bullock said. "Usually we work for people with needs different from our own. We must learn to be comfortable in our own opinions saddle and work from what those who will use the product tell us."
TODAY: JOHN ANDREWES of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Resources will present two lectures, at noon and at 3:30, in 322 LINLEAR. CARL BANZ, associate professor of East Asian Studies, will speak on "Women in Chinese Revolutionary Literature, 1971-1960," at the women's Studies Sandwich Seminar at noon in Alcove D of the Union. The first program in the LIBRARY COLLOQUIIM SERIES will be "Libraries in the U.S.S.R. and Poland" at 3:30 in Spencer ABDOMNEY THOMAS HILL, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Center, will speak on "The Space Shuttle" at 3:30 in 2002 Learned Hall.
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TONIGHT: The Minority Affairs Cultural Enrichment Program will present RUBY DEE and OSSI DAVIS at 7:30 in Houdini Auditorium. JOHN MARALDO, core faculty member in Buddhist Studies at Narsopa Institute in Boulder, Collo, will present *The Practice and Everyday Life*'s 7:30 in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
SATURDAY: THE JAYHAWK JAMBOREE three-stage bicycle race is Saturday and Sunday, sponsored by the Mount Oread Bicycle Club and the Kaw Valley Bicycle Club. A BASIC AUTO MECHANICS WORKSHOP, sponsored by CWENS, will be at 2:1n.m. at the Building and Grounds garage.
SUNDAY: Albert Gerken, associate professor of music theory, will present a CARILLOON RECTAL at 3 p.m. at the Memorial Panicamile. The KU VARSITY AND CONCERT BANDS will present a concert at 3:30 p.m. in the University Theatre. GRECKY BLAACK, program associate at the KU Linwood Center, will speak on "The Hollywood Film Industry: Entertainment or Propaganda?" at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Center, 9900 Mission Rd., Overland Park.
Announcements . . .
The department of visual arts will sponsor a TEXTILE DESIGN INTERSESSION May 24 through June 4. The interesse will include three courses: Spinning Workshop, Problems in Printing and Dyeing and Introduction to Weaving. Reservation requests should be made before May 1.
Correction ...
The College Assembly sent back for re-assessment a recommendation by the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee for a more restrictive class withdrawal policy. The Assembly did not reject the recommendation, as reported in Wednesday's Kansas.
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