隨著生活水準提高以及醫療技術的進步，人口高齡化已是世界人口的趨勢。隨著年齡增長，高齡者在身體機能上會有全面性的退化，甚至在日常生活起居上會出現不便之處。高齡者的研究已成為近日許多科學研究的重心，許多研究針對不同層面的退化提出探討。
台灣高齡者的居住形式偏向獨居以及與伴侶同住，加上高齡者普遍不偏好外食，故高齡者有下廚的需求。而因為身體機能的退化，使得高齡者下廚的風險大幅提升。因此，高齡者下廚的輔助是必要的。
本研究將針對炒菜鍋的相關行為進行輔具設計，將針對問卷選出的任務產出若干不同的輔具設計。最終從七個輔具設計中挑選四樣進行最終實驗，並且將透過肌電儀的數據分析以及對手部顫動的測量，來客觀探討輔具的實際效用。本實驗將分析iEMG值以觀察肌肉的疲勞程度，在實驗任務中，測量的肌肉包括屈指淺肌（FDS）、橈側屈腕肌（FCR）、肱二頭肌（Biceps）和三角肌（Deltoids）。在針對炒菜鍋的四個輔具設計中，以爐台為出發點的設計對肌肉的負荷有顯著改善。而手部顫動的部分並無顯著差異。

With the enhance of medical technology and living standard, aging society becomes trend of the world. Elders mostly suffer from degeneration, which causes problems of their daily lives. Aging has become a big issue of scientific researches nowadays.
Elders in Taiwan mostly live alone or alone with their wives/husbands. Because they do not like to eat out, cooking plays an important role of their lives. Due to the degeneration that happened to their bodies, the risk of cooking increases. Therefore, it is necessary for them to get some help.
In this research we will make aid design models that help elders use woks. The aid designs are for the task we chose from investigation. We will also evaluate the effect of the aids objectively by EMG system, and collected the iEMG value for evaluation. The iEMG values were collected from four muscles (FDC, FCR, Biceps and Deltoids). Eight mid-aged participants, who will become elders in the near future, were invited to the experiment. Four design solutions were chosen from seven working models. Design solutions all help the task, and the performances of stove design solutions are significantly better than the original wok. The degree of hand trembling while performing tasks was also measured, but the differences were not significant.

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