The bathroom is an area of critical importance in the design of housing for the handicapped. For a number of reasons, building standards for the handicapped have fallen short of specifying optimal bathrooms for their intended users. The principal obstacle to better bathrooms for the handicapped appears to be the paucity of human factors data (particularly anthropometric data on body dimensions and muscular capability) of various handicapped populations. There also appears to be a need for objective techniques for testing bathroom fixture designs.
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