가정용 의료 혈압측정기의 디자인에 대한 연구-혈압측정기의 감성 평가조사 및 디자인 선호도조사-

Now home blood-pressure measuring instrumentof the domestic market is the item increasing demandbecause of prolonged average life span and a highdeath-rate caused by cardiovascular disease. Now thisproduct is getting the spotlight in so many differentplaces so that people who need home blood-pressuremeasuring instrument to check blood pressure easily athome have increased. This product has to makepreparations for technique and design upgrade ofproduct to improve competitiveness. The results ofsensibility estimation on design of home blood-pressuremeasuring instrument, respondents showed that theyrecognized on stimulus in four ways distinctively. Aslinguistic implication of each factor, first factor of imagelanguage is 'evaluative emotion', second factor ofimage language is 'color emotion', third factor of imagelanguage is 'balance emotion' and fourth factor ofimage language is 'form emotion'. First, the result ofsurvey showed that it needs to be produced in a wayof stable and durable design for using comfortableproduct than hard and crude design for home medicalproduct. Second, the blood pressure instrument matcheswith white and paste color which has warm image thanprimary color which has cold image of establishedmedical instrument. Third, major customers for usingthe blood pressure measuring instrument are old man,people with high and low blood pressure so it needsto be produced that size and color are considered to berecognize the button of production easily. Now medicalinstrument has to be designed for user service. It needsto be designed production considering user rather than functional production.