Ergonomics I

1)

a) Comfort and Simplicity

Man in beige suit's office: His chair is very uncomfortable as he was shifting his body to get more comfortable

Adjusting the Chair is difficult as the adjusting knob is at the back of the chair and it can come out.

Chair's back make the person prone to bending over.

Man in Black suit's office: Adjusting it's hight is easy as one can just bend over to change it's hight.

It is easily bendable making it easy to adjust it's bend-ability.

Chair's build make's it easier to straighten up

b) Incorrect hight and depth

Man in biege suit's office: He cannot adjust the hight and how near it is to him easily.

Man in black suit's office: He can easily

Elderly Challenge Observation 4

The corridor is too crammed and this will cause some difficulty for the elderly as they walk from one end of the corridor to another.They might trip over the stands of the rack. The front rack is affixed to the wall and so it cannot move and it will then protrude out of the wall and thus injuring the elderly is they hit it.

Elderly Challenge Observation 3

The buttons on the remote are too cramped and the words are too small so anyone with weak eyesight will not be able to read the words and thus press the wrong button. The words need to be bigger and it would be good it the remote said the button being pressed or maybe it could have a word recognizing software where the person can just speak the word and the command word be executed.

Elderly Challenge Observation 2

This drain is deep and an Elderly person can accidentally fall in it and since it is deep, they might not be able to get out of the drain and they might get injured as well.

Elderly Challenge - Observation 1

There is a bump on the floor and so the elderly person can trip and fall over it. Poor eyesight can make the bump more unnoticeable for them.

Holiday Work - Part 3:Tools to be learnt in Semester 2

Here is the room's overview. It is spacious and nothing will get into the way of the Elder Folk.The wardrobes are built into the wall to save space and not pose a threat to the Elderly people. The handles of the wardrobes are made of a special anti-slip material with grooves in it so that the user will have no problems opening the doors.



This air conditioner is placed at best possible place so that the user need not to stretch too much to change so settings of the air conditioner. The signal of the remote can reach the air-conditioner easier.


this television set is large enough for the user so that he/she can use it with comfort with out straining his/her eyes


This bed is low so that even if the user falls over, so that he/she does not get feel much pain and get injured but it is high enough so that the person will have ease in getting out of it.

Holiday work - Part 1: Understanding the ‘The Elderly Challenge’

Four key recommendation of the report:

1) Provide a Elderly friendly residence for the elders such as having different housing choices like the size, types, cost and where is it situated so as to offer the elderly people with more option to choose from to meet the needs of their requirement.

2) Have a barrier free community.Examples are providing the elderly people with an environment that will not impede them from traveling or access to some places. This will facilitate the elderly people and thus making their life easier. Making buses more accessible for the elderly by having no steps for wheelchairs and a low floor is also an example. This will not only benefit the seniors, but young parents, children in prams and people with physical disability.

3)Having more affordable healthcare and elderly care services.Top up the Medisave accounts of those who are not well-to-do when there are budget surplus, which means whenever the government have left over from the expenditure of the country development, it will go into the Medisave accounts and this will defray the cost of the healthcare costs.Family physicians also should take care of the elderly people more and look into their matters comprehensively.

4) Active lifestyles and well-being.Promote more programmes and services for the seniors so as to have them significantly contribute to Singapore, their family and the society.Build on family ties to ensure that the elderly people still have their family members as their front line of support.

One way the CAI report recommending to make our public housing more elderly-friendly
It says that HDB should work with market players to offer reverse mortgage schemes for elderly HDB flat lessees at commercial terms, to provide another option for seniors to derive some income from their homes to meet expenditure in old age, without having to move out of their homes.

TWO ways on how we can ensure that the quality of elderly care here in Singapore is affordable
1) The clinics can help them by providing subsidized fees for their services.
2) Give those elder people who do not have a income source a monthly allowance .

THREE things that I can do, as an SST student, to help overcome these elderly challenges
1) I can organize a fund-raising event to raise money for the Elderly.
2) I can design a machine which can allow the elderly person to walk or move across any surface.
3) I can assist a few elderly people with their needs.

LEAP week-NEWater visit

1) The 3 takeaways from today's visit is
We need to conserve water, the four national taps supply us with water and NEWater's method of supplying water.

2)

i) We need more water resources to ensure a constant water supply.

ii) The processes of how NEWater clean water.

3) I learned that NEWater is very safe for human consumption but yet NEWater does not advertise about their products and sell it to industries and commercial places instead and that NEWater undergoes 3 stages of cleansing.

4) By actively participating in conserving water, or if possible, improve the methods or even develop new methods.

Photography People

Friendship is very valuable and moments like this last for ever.

Even teachers need their quality time to socialize.

This picture shows a very cheerful SST student

When is the best time to take photos?

The best time would be early morning and late evenings(when the sun is at the lowest point)

photography-research and findings

Types of photography:

1)aerial

2)adventure

3)amateur

4)pet,animal

5)architecture

6)artistic

7)astrophotography

8)black and white

9)camera phone

10)commercial

11)digiscoping-taken through a binocular or telescope

12)documentary

13)event

14)forensic

15)infrared

16)large format

17)kirlian

18)macro

19)medical

20)nature

21)night

22)panoramic

23)people

24)pinhole-uses the most basic type of camera possible — a box with a tiny hole to let light in.

25)scenic

26)satellite

27)scientific

28)sports

29)stereoscopic-taking two photos to make 3-d image

30)stock

31)time-lapse

32)travel

33)ultra violet

34)underwater

35)urban ,industrial

sited from:http://www.mediacollege.com/photography/types/

Items for photography:

1)tripod

2)camera bag

3)lenses

4)flash

sited from:http://www.photographytips.com/page.cfm/30

sited from:http://photography.about.com/od/photographyequipment/a/basicequipment.htm

what is aperture?

Aperture is the diameter of the lens opening to take a photo.The larger the aperture, the more amount of light will reach the image sensor and the more the details in the photo will be.

sited from:http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial_aperture.html

what is focus?

focus is how far the camera can take clear photos

sited from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera

what is shutter speed?

shutter speed is how fast a camera’s shutter opens and closes.A fast shutter will freeze the entire scene and a slow shutter will make the background blurred.

sited from:http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Camera-Shutter-Speeds-explained-4794

What is ISO?

iso is the speed of the part in the camera which catches light to post on the photo and effects the exposure.

Sited from:http://www.photography-reviews.com/photography/81-Photo-Exposure-explained-histogram,-ISO,-shoot-speed,-aperture.html

what is metering?

metering is the process of taking the light reading to seth the correct aperture and shutter speed

sited from:http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Beginners-Guide-to-Photography--Metering-6351

What is white balance?

white balance is to take a photo its real colours intact

sited from:http://photocritic.org/white-balance/

what are the rules of photography?

1)diagonal lines

2)rule of thirds

3)golden section rule

sited from:http://www.colorpilot.com/comp_rules.html

techniques of photography

1)use natural or man made objects to make a frame around the subject

2)try to add the sun or some clouds in the picture for a nice effect

3)take action shots to freeze motion for the effect.

sited from:http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/how-to.html