CCRI Seminar Series – ‘Just My Cup of Tea: Understanding How Cup Design Affects Drinking Ease for Older Adults’ with Professor Alaster Yoxall (ADMRC)
Please join us on Wednesday 13 October for our next CCRI-wide seminar as part of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute Seminar Series, where we will be hearing from the Art, Design & Media Research Centre’s Professor Alaster Yoxall on his research in design and ergonomics with respect to an ageing population.
Image courtesy of Alaster Yoxall
Just My Cup of Tea: Understanding How Cup Design Affects Drinking Ease for Older Adults
Many older people struggle to drink from typical drinking vessels used in care settings. Previous work by the team has found features such as weight, shape and handle size affect how easily older people find them to use. However, very little is known about the exact features that make some cups easier to handle and drink from.
During the project Alaster interviewed older people to find out their views on the features of cups/mugs they prefer and used a series of ergonomic techniques to study what factors about the cup design affect performance.
It is intended that the results from this study will improve our understanding of hand performance when drinking. It will inform design guidelines for optimising drinking vessels and influence the purchasing of those most suitable for supporting the hydration of older people.
CCRI Seminar Series – Just My Cup of Tea: Understanding How Cup Design Affects Drinking Ease for Older Adults with Professor Alaster Yoxall
Wednesday 13 October, 1300-1400
If you’d like to come along please contact ! RIS Culture & Creativity RI Enquiries.
Alaster Yoxall is a Professor of Packaging Ergonomics in the Art, Design & Media Research Centre (ADMRC), involved in the ‘Inclusive Design’ of packaging for over 12 years. Alaster was the UK’s technical expert in the development of ISO 17480 Packaging Accessibility guidelines and has extensive experience in measuring people’s capabilities, observing people opening packaging and developing solutions. Alaster is currently involved in a number of projects working with academia, business and healthcare professionals to improve packaging accessibility.
About the CCRI Seminar Series
We are currently relaunching our successful seminar series, continuing the regular insights into our researchers and the research we do in the Culture & Creativity Research Institute we explored with our previous C3RI Seminar Series.
If you are interested in hosting an external visitor, giving your own seminar about your research or would like to volunteer to hold a seminar session more geared towards staff development, please let us know at ! RIS Culture & Creativity RI Enquiries. You can find out about future seminars on the CCRI Impact Blog pages for 2021-2022.
It is our aim to record each and every one of our research seminars and we will make recordings available shortly afterwards on the staff intranet, in order to create an archive of our speakers and seminars.
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