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Research on the Color of Physiotherapy Equipment - Example of the Lower Limb Equipment

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The global population is aging, creating a gradual increase in patients with chronic diseases. According to the theory of color therapy, color is able to increase positive feelings and enhance the effectiveness of treatment. This study, based on Kansei Engineering theory, explores the effect of color on use of Physical therapy equipment. The purpose of this study is to reinforce the patient’s positive feelings and thus improve the efficiency of treatment. Firstly, relevant adjectives were found from references. Find five experts were sought out to select main adjectives and colours for feelings relating to lower limb physical therapy equipment images, get 6 sets of vocabulary and 12 colors. Secondly, a questionnaire survey was conducted through semantic differences method to further find the colours which relate closest to positive images of lower limb physical therapy equipment, valid sample of 334 people. Finally, according to the results, the lower limb physical therapy equipment recoloured, followed by another questionnaire survey, valid sample of 418 people. The results of this study show that yellow green (C30-M0-Y60-K0), red (C0-M55-Y30-K0), blue green (C60-M0-Y25-K0) color can enhance user rehabilitation have a positive feeling.

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Thanks to Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology for funding to attend the international conference. Thanks to Chiao Tung University and Asian University for conducting this research, Relocation assistance.

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  1. Institute of Applied Arts, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 University Road, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan, ROC

    Peng Jyun Liu

  2. Department of Creative Product Design, Asia University, 500, Lioufeng Rd., Wufeng, Taichung, 41354, Taiwan, ROC

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  1. Dipartimento di Architettura, Universitàdegli Studi G.d’Annunzio”, Pescara, Pescara, Italy

    Giuseppe Di Bucchianico

  2. Department of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Cliff Sungsoo Shin

  3. University of Notre Dame, Indiana, IN, USA

    Scott Shim

  4. System Design and Management, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shuichi Fukuda

  5. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Gianni Montagna

  6. Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Cristina Carvalho

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Liu, P.J. (2020). Research on the Color of Physiotherapy Equipment - Example of the Lower Limb Equipment. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Shin, C., Shim, S., Fukuda, S., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_85

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