Industrial Design Engineering

Bachelor Assignment

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Sibbald, E.S. (Evan)

Development of a shoe/ice skate combination to allow young children learn ice skating in a playful, safe and proper way

At: In Beweging

Learning the first principles of ice skating is ideally executed in a rather playful but proper way, where the existing types of ice skates do not allow young children to do so. Also, young children do not bother to run and play on the ice floor while wearing their casual shoes, or to walk outside the ice floor while wearing ice skates. These situations bring outside dirt on the ice floor and lead to damage on both floors outside the ice floor and on the ice skates themselves. Therefore, a new type of ice skate has been developed to allow the user to learn ice skating in a playful and proper manner, while allowing them to easily alternate between walking on normal floors and ice skating on ice floors.

Exam date: 13-07-2021