Pouring Assistant
The Pouring Assistant is a pouring aid tailored to a plethora of issues, seemingly insignificant to the everyday life we live.
This is works to aid those with issues such as Parkinson’s, arthritis and can also help when ageing.
The Assistant was designed by combining ubiquitous objects and creating a hackable assistant.
Alongside the actual aid comes a set of instructions to create the aid yourself.
The instructions are played out step by step to create a simple set of tasks.
Pouring assistant use instructions dispalyed through images
Tester 1. exploring angles through foam.
Final testing with the user.
Going back to the specific user and realising the padding was useless.
Testing the stability attachments that move with the user.
Moving to hacking an at home piece and exploring the use of padding.
Working on bending the hacked pouring assistant
Adding stability attachments.
Testimonial from our fix-partner about the product two months on…
“Due to the fact that I hadn’t helped in the kitchen for over a year and a half because of my Parkinson's, the pouring assistant helped me in a big way. Although straining the veg or boiling eggs seem like small tasks the aid helps me to be more independent and confident when my husband isn’t in the house!”
— Laura Morrissey