INGRESS / EGRESS MOVEMENT FOR ELDERLY AND PATHOLOGICAL POPULATION

The increasing presence of elderly and pathological populations in our modern societies made it necessary to improve the usability of many products. One of the key issues concerning vehicles is ease of ingress and egress movements. However, few studies are devoted to this problem. The objective of the present paper is to expose the experimental protocol of the HANDIMAN project lead for this purpose. A mixed population of forty one test subjects took part in the experiments. Kinematic and dynamic data are recorded. First results showed many differences between the subjects according to their state.