Objective: The lack of spiritual comfort for the empty nesters is a great harm to the elderly. There are few products on the market that combine the emotional detection and wearable devices for the elderly with empty nests. Product demand, emotional needs, to guide the design of empty nest elderly emotional detection products. Methods: Through the investigation and the emotional needs of the empty nest elderly, establish the functional requirements of the product; analyze the user’s functional demand indicators for the empty nest elderly emotional detection products, and obtain the user demand importance to guide the product design. Results: Complete the needs of the empty nest elderly for the emotional detection of wearable products, build the functional requirements of the product, reflect the demand for the product function of the empty nest elderly, and ensure that the product can better meet the specific needs of the empty nest elderly. Conclusion: It proves that the product design for the emotional detection products of the empty nest is broad market, in line with the future social trend, with practical feasibility, theoretical pertinence and development necessity.
