Which hygienic products for which continent? Design for usage and sustainability

Yann Leroy (1) , Bernard Yannou (1) , Lakshmi Murthy (2) , Amrine Lallmahomed (3) , Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris (1, 3)

1 LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606
2 IIT Bombay - Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
3 AgroParisTech

All women have to deal with menstrual cycles.The paper proposes to investigate usage and sustainability performances of four hygienic solutions, i.e. environmental, economic, hygienic, comfort and social performances. Three different geographical contexts are also studied: Europe, United States and India, where product expectations, cultural aspects, production and logistic realities strongly differ and influence the purchasing choice. Products sustainable performances are fanally combined with client's preferences to identify the product that fit the best the clients' expectations.

Mots clés: menstrual products; design for sustainability; design for usage; multicriteria analysis; life cycle assessment

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur; Autre; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Modélisation et simulation

Yann Leroy, Bernard Yannou, Lakshmi Murthy, Amrine Lallmahomed, Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris. Which hygienic products for which continent? Design for usage and sustainability. 14th International Design Conference, May 2016, Dubrovnik, Croatia. pp.311-320. ⟨hal-01444960v2⟩