With empathic modelling (self-experience) the designer tries to put herself in the position of the user. Carrying a walking cane in your daily life - just like a physically impaired person needs to - can give you a lot of surprises, insights and inspiration for creating and optimizing design and function of this very product.
One of the advantages of this research method is that we can get information directly and without the mediation of a user. Still, the researcher must consider the big difference to the situation of the actual target group.

Research Experiment // Year: 2008