Accessible toilet

Accessible toilet

The Challenge of Designing Accessible City Centre Toilets

Published in Philip D. Bust, Contemporary Ergonomics 2006, 2020

Julienne Hanson, Jo-Anne Bichard, Clara Greed

Finally, and importantly for ergonomics, people with different medical conditions require different detailed design features within the WC cubicle itself. The most fundamental challenge to dimensional coordination is the actual size and overall dimensions of the WC compartment, since this affect people’s ability to access the WC in the first place. Currently, the recommended dimensions for an accessible toilet cubicle are 1500 mm wide by 2200 mm deep, and these minima are usually treated as maximum dimensions.

Does the setting matter? Observing wheelchair transfers across different environmental conditions

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Published in Assistive Technology, 2020

Giulia Barbareschi, Sharon Sonenblum, Catherine Holloway, Stephen Sprigle

Transferring scenario was found to significantly affect either the perceived difficulty or the TAI score, depending on the transferring technique. Participants performing standing transfers rated car transfers as more difficult. By contrast, when participants used a sitting technique bathroom transfers were found to be more challenging. This was particularly interesting as the accessible toilet used for this study was fitted with grab bars that are supposed to facilitate the performance of wheelchair transfers. However, as noted by Toro et al. (2012) and Tsai et al. (2018), grab bars commonly fitted in accessible toilets are often too high to be useful to people performing sitting transfers and were scarcely used by participants.

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