C. Stones, Wenbo Ai, Sophie A. Rutter, Andrew Madden
{"title":"Developing novel visual messages for a video screen hand sanitizer: a co-design study with students","authors":"C. Stones, Wenbo Ai, Sophie A. Rutter, Andrew Madden","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2095760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2095760","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper reports on the results of a series of co-design workshops devised to generate new messaging ideas for a novel hand sanitizer unit that features a video screen and feedback system. Students of different nationalities, ages and genders were involved in the process either to prime design sessions, or devise/evaluate new ideas for the screen to display in a university setting. The project aimed not only to produce animated designs for subsequent testing but also to elicit key preferences for hand hygiene message tone, content and visual appearance. Research findings revealed a clear preference in the student community for positive, caring and playful approaches to hand hygiene messaging in contrast to many messaging approaches featured in previous studies. In terms of visual approach, students expressed a preference for colourful illustrations rather than photographs or word-based messages. The paper highlights some particularly rich ideas developed to exploit the novelty of the device, such as specific animated sequences or immediate visual rewards of internet memes as ways to engage the student audience. Co-design proved valuable in devising new insights for the hygiene communication community.","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"96 1","pages":"185 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85204916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lars Veldmeijer, G. Terlouw, Job Tb van 't Veer, Derek A. Kuipers
{"title":"Harnessing virtual reality simulation in training healthcare workers in handling patients with suspected COVID-19 infections: results of training and lessons learned about design","authors":"Lars Veldmeijer, G. Terlouw, Job Tb van 't Veer, Derek A. Kuipers","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2059997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2059997","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Virtual Reality (VR) simulation-based training can be a quick and effective way to train healthcare workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic by creating life-like scenarios whilst maintaining safety measures. This study examines the lessons learned from VR simulation training to prepare HCWs to work in COVID-19 departments and use personal protective equipment correctly. A total of 32 participants (N = 32) participated in this study. This study involved two VR scenarios with each two self-evaluation questionnaires and observations during the training. Structured interviews were conducted six weeks after the second scenario. Participants reported experiencing immersiveness after completing the VR training and reported perceiving the training as useful for their professional practice. The scenarios were not always perceived as relevant. The effects of transfer from simulation to professional practice are inconclusive. The potential of VR simulation-based training to train HCWs to work with COVID-19 is considerable but investing more time on the front end of design is recommended. Therefore, we present four lessons about design as guidelines for future work. This study shows the propensity to design solutions instantaneously during a pandemic tempts us to bypass the usual stages of an iterative design process, but that urgency to act should not be a licence to improvise.","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"11 1","pages":"44 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75675902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aesthetics and dementia: exploring the role of everyday aesthetics in dementia care settings","authors":"Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith, V. Tischler, D. Robson","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2074207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2074207","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores how everyday aesthetics shape and are shaped within dementia care settings. The authors draw upon research that explored the significance of clothing and textiles in care home settings, to identify the varied and complex aesthetic experiences of people with dementia. The study was carried out using a series of creative, sensory and embodied research methods working with people with dementia and care home staff. Findings demonstrate that aesthetics are important in care homes at a number of levels. People with dementia discussed personal aesthetic preferences and demonstrated such preferences through embodied practices. Attending to aesthetics facilitated moments of togetherness between people with dementia and care home staff, creating person-centred encounters outside task-orientated conversations. This paper supports the importance of everyday aesthetics within dementia care settings and demonstrates that greater attention should be paid to this, to reconsider and enhance not only the look and feel of care homes and everyday items, including clothing, but also dementia care practice more broadly.","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"38 1","pages":"91 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79357572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Involving people with dementia in the development process of assistive technology: multi-stakeholder experiences of a user-driven living lab","authors":"L. Snaphaan, I. Geerts, I. Bongers","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2058827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2058827","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Despite the potential value of assistive technology to support people with dementia and their informal caregivers (=PlwD) to age in place, use of these innovations is still limited. To ensure that innovations better address specific needs of PlwD, it is important to actively involve them into the innovation process. A Living Lab (LL) is a user-centred research design in which multiple stakeholders, develop, test and validate innovative solutions in real-life environment together with end-users (i.e. PlwD). Although user involvement activities in LLs are seen as their main goal, little literature is available on how different stakeholders, including users, experience their collaboration in LLs. This case study (Playtime) investigates the experiences of various stakeholders, including PlwD, when developing a serious game in a LL. 18 semi-structured interviews were conducted with PlwD, healthcare professionals, developers and researchers about their experiences following the key-principles of a successful User Centred Design project. Results shows that the stakeholders of the Playtime LL are most positive with regard to the key-principles active user participation, continuous iteration of design solutions and multidisciplinary networks. Some lessons learned are selected to inspire other LLs when collaborating with PlwD in the development of assistive technology for dementia.","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"19 3 1","pages":"28 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81258793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Will temporary become permanent?","authors":"Paul Chamberlain","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2072072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2072072","url":null,"abstract":"Experts warned decades ago of a pandemic and that the world was grossly unprepared to respond to such an event. The COVID-19 pandemic consequently sparked an intense and frantic response to an unprecedented crisis. In a very short time everyday life changed, the way we communicate, technological solutions were fast tracked, new processes, services and products emerged, and most importantly vaccines were developed in record time. We were forced into changing our behaviour. These changes were generally approached and adopted as temporary solutions to minimize the impact of COVID-19 and to support a swift return to normality. However, it is now widely acknowledged we won’t be returning to a pre-COVID normality but likely to have to adjust to live with the virus for years to come. What is also emerging is that many of the temporary fixes prompted by the pandemic are likely to become permanent features of our everyday life. There are many diverse historical examples where temporary solutions have become permanent. The idea of aligning waking hours to daylight hours was originally introduced during World War 1 as a way of conserving energy and providing more usable daylight hours. Buildings, such as the Eiffel tower and London Eye, were originally planned as temporary structures. When computer programmers wrote the code that became problematic for the Y2K millennium bug, they expected that the software would be rewritten or replaced by the time the year 2000 rolled around. As it turned out, the code was never re-written or replaced. Academic research has certainly not escaped the challenges and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, it is important we reflect upon the imposed changes that we have had to adopt, and whether these temporary solutions to manage our way through and out of a crisis, will become unintended lasting solutions to ways of conducting and disseminating our future research. There was a remarkable global uptake after quarantine measures were adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This forced the majority of the population to work from home, or remote from their normal places of work, which has now become accepted practice and largely enabled by communication technology. Zoom, founded in 2011 providing a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform used for video communications, saw rapid adoption during the pandemic and has become ubiquitous in our daily activity and everyday language. Access to health services was hugely compromised with the increased demand brought upon by COVID. This resulted in more wide-spread adoption of remote digital health services. This journal is evidence of the long-standing research that has been undertaken in the field of health technologies that has been fast tracked in terms of its adoption prompted by the pandemic. There has been a global effort in responding to the pandemic, reinforcing the value of collaborative approaches to address big societal challenges. However participatory approach","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"3 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80708567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Unver, Jane E Clayton, N. Clear, Omar Huerta, J. Binder, Claire Paxman, Richard Paxman
{"title":"The challenges of implementing design research within SME based medical product development: Paxman scalp cooling case study","authors":"E. Unver, Jane E Clayton, N. Clear, Omar Huerta, J. Binder, Claire Paxman, Richard Paxman","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2060649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2060649","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This case study examines a long-term study on patient experience to identify value generated through collaborative medical design research, in developing a scalp cooling device to prevent chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA)/hair-loss. Developing a new medical device is long and complex, requiring a cross-platform multi-disciplinary team. User feedback is essential to ensure continuous development to improve efficacy. Qualitative and quantitative data was gathered from chemotherapy patients using scalp cooling in 9 different countries. Analysis of patient experience captures the impact design research has had for scalp cooling patients globally and guides continuous development, placing the patient at the centre of the design method, driven primarily by the aim of maximizing treatment efficacy for all patients and promoting positive patient experiences. Overall, patient experience of scalp cooling using this device is highly positive and impacts significantly on five key areas of wellbeing. The outcomes will help develop an improved cap for global use.","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"25 1","pages":"4 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90784698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucy Adams, E. Simonoff, Kevin Tierney, M. Hollocks, Aylana Brewster, J. Watson, L. Valmaggia
{"title":"Developing a user-informed intervention study of a virtual reality therapy for social anxiety in autistic adolescents","authors":"Lucy Adams, E. Simonoff, Kevin Tierney, M. Hollocks, Aylana Brewster, J. Watson, L. Valmaggia","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2062151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2062151","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Social anxiety is prevalent in autistic adolescents. Using virtual reality to deliver exposure tasks in cognitive behavioural therapy (VRCBT) – the treatment-of-choice – may improve its accessibility in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In preparation for testing this, service-providers (i.e. clinicians experienced with this patient group; n = 17), service-users (i.e. autistic adolescents diagnosed with social anxiety; n = 5), and their parents/guardians (n = 5), from local National Health Service (NHS) clinics specialized in working with ASD, were consulted. The aim was to develop user-informed case series, treatment, and VR design protocols for testing the intervention for the first time. Consultees indicated that the VRCBT exposure tasks ought to be self-paced, as individualizable as possible, viewable to the therapist, and provide a step towards real-life exposure. Consultees identified exposure tasks for simulating in VR: approaching and conversing with others, experiencing perceived injustice, the feeling of being the centre of attention, and situations involving novelty and/or lower predictability. Further implications for developing and testing VRCBT and conducting patient and public involvement (PPI) in autistic adolescents with social anxiety are discussed.","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"1 1","pages":"114 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89675158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leila Aflatoony, Kenneth Hepburn, Molly M Perkins, Drenna Waldrop, Lai Reed
{"title":"Training Clinical Researchers with Design Thinking to To Develop Dementia Caregiving Research Initiatives.","authors":"Leila Aflatoony, Kenneth Hepburn, Molly M Perkins, Drenna Waldrop, Lai Reed","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2061830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2061830","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Training healthcare professionals with Design Thinking (DT) can support patient-centred care by recognizing patient/care provider needs through empathizing. This article explored the Design Thinking in improving clinical researchers' understanding of relatively unexplored and understudied dementia caregiving problems. Following the Double-Diamond, a Design Thinking process model, we conducted a series of workshops and invited family caregivers of patients with dementia as active participants to provide training to clinical researchers on Design Thinking. We then evaluated the benefit of the workshops in improving clinical researchers' understanding of the caregiving problem and solution space through pre- and post-surveys. Our findings revealed researchers' overall perception of Design Thinking, their clear insights on dementia caregivers' challenges, and speculating caregiver-specific interventions. Our paper contributed to the health design community by exploring the benefit of Design Thinking in understudied areas by 1) Recognizing urgent matters in healthcare, 2) Revealing implicit needs through collective expertise and knowledge exchange, and 3) Producing original health care research and contributions. We hope this study inspires and supports training healthcare researchers to advance dementia caregiving and healthcare research initiatives by adopting the Double-Diamond process model.</p>","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"6 1","pages":"69-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9578440/pdf/nihms-1821621.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40559229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Reay, I. Nakarada-Kordic, N. Kayes, Cassandra Khoo, C. Craig
{"title":"Initiate.collaborate: a design for health collaboration toolkit","authors":"S. Reay, I. Nakarada-Kordic, N. Kayes, Cassandra Khoo, C. Craig","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2045091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2045091","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The emerging Design for Health (D4H) field has considerable potential to identify and address existing challenges faced by healthcare systems. D4H is a challenging environment for designers (and others who desire to ‘do things differently’) to work in. D4H projects require transdisciplinary approaches, making it more difficult for those who come from different perspectives to work effectively together. This paper reflects on the challenges and opportunities of those working in the field and describes the development of a practical toolkit to support teams embarking on D4H projects.","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"28 1","pages":"294 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82797801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Another End is Possible – NEW NOW, Festival for Digital Arts, UNESCO World Heritage Zollverein, ESSEN, Germany, 27th August 2021–03 October 2021","authors":"Noémie Soula","doi":"10.1080/24735132.2022.2045136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24735132.2022.2045136","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A review of the international and interdisciplinary conference Another End Is Possible during the brand-new European festival for Digital Arts NEW NOW. The review is based on my experience as an early career researcher and artist speaking at the conference, and also as a visitor of the exhibition and spectator of performances, physically (on-site) and digitally (remotely). NEW NOW Festival presents various programmes for culture development merging different formats such as a residency, a conference, a physical and an online exhibition as well as performances. This festival is an example of good practices for art and design research future dissemination transforming the COVID-19 pandemic’s challenges as well as sustainability issues into opportunities to create stimulating and engaging new experiences beyond screens and spaces.","PeriodicalId":92348,"journal":{"name":"Design for health (Abingdon, England)","volume":"29 1","pages":"346 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85333995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}