Purpose This paper aims to improve the understanding of student readiness for universal design learning (UDL), thereby reducing a barrier its adoption by management faculty. It explores how students’ personality (conscientiousness and openness experience) affects their embrace UDL investigate that relationship is mediated self-directed (SDL). Design/methodology/approach Analysis uses survey dat...

In this paper, we extend concepts from product family and platform design and mass customisation to create a method for a universal product family design. The objective of this paper is to develop a universal design method to generate an economically feasible design concept and evaluate the design feasibility with respect to disabilities within a product family in uncertain market environments....

The longevity of the aging populations resulting in a demographic gap is an emergent problem in present society. Universal design philosophy is a transfer towards inclusion promising improved solutions for people with diverse abilities. Nevertheless, often in practice it becomes a mere conception. Existing theoretical guidelines as design principles often fail to result in factual universal des...