Single Portion Packaging And The Use Of User Test Protocols To Determine Patient Accesibility
- Submitting institution
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Sheffield Hallam University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3789
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/21551197.2019.1651237
- Title of journal
- Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics
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- First page
- 387
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0163-9366
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This enquiry investigates the demands that opening food packs place on consumers in terms of their physical and cognitive attributes. Whilst a seemingly simple task it can severely test an individual’s strength, finger manipulation and their ability to perceive and understand the information that the pack provides the user. These demands are usually studied in isolation. This research looks at these factors concurrently using a range of methods including observation, motion capture, questionnaires along with dexterity and cognitive distraction tests combined with ergonomic analysis to understand the relationship between the pack form, hand manipulation and cognition. From this work researchers were able to determine which packs were more physically and cognitively demanding The results, illuminated in the paper, confirmed that the dexterous demands of a task can be linked to the cognitive understanding. This research also developed the concept of the ‘Design Model’ of packaging use and the ‘User Model’ of packaging use. This comparative model has now been adopted by Britvic in developing test protocols for user panels in its New Packaging Development processes. This protocol was also presented at the 9th EuroSense conference on sensory and consumer research in December 2020 by Halak Parikh, Head of R&D, Insight and Sensory Science at Britvic PLC.
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- Non-English
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