| Abstract |
| The purpose of this study was to extract a range of aging-friendly ubiquitous home services based on need of the elderly. Research method employed was deep interview with elderly, possible aging-friendly ubiquitous services base on the need were searched and analyzed according to grounded theory. The results were as follows. The first, the factors which have an impact on life quality of elderly were health, economy and social relationship in order. The second, elderly had physiological needs, security needs, affiliation needs, self-actualization needs, esteem needs in order within the Maslow`s need hierarchy. The third, when elderly were healthy, they would like to live in their own houses. In case of, however, they are sick, elderly want to live in an alternative house. The fourth, after explanation about ubiquitous home, elderly would like to live ubiquitous home which could support the aging-in-place. The fifth, using ground theory approach, 15 categories and 70 special items of ubiquitous services were extracted and arranged according to 5 types of Maslow`s needs. This service can be used as a pool to more elaborately fined elderly need according to their situations and backgrounds to develop aging-friendly house products in more strategic way. In future society, where ubiquitous service will be a general, major design trend. |
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| Key Words |
| 고령친화, 유비쿼터스 주택, 서비스, Elderly-friendly, Ubiquitous Home, Service |
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