Feasibility of HPV self-sampling pathway in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal using a human-centred design approach

AbstractProduct success depends on its capacity to meet users’ expectations. Human Centred Design approach helps to reach this success by focussing on users’ needs in the design process. These needs are as well functional as hedonic. Designing products requires then to design hedonic properties affecting users’ perception. For sport products, people wants to improve their performances while maintaining their health. Sport products are then considered not only “sporty” but also “healthy”. Thus, integrating both health and sport expectations into the design process are necessary.Last decades, Affective Engineering was developed to integrate perception into the design process. Applying this approach for sport products may allow defining and mixing sport and health perceptual characteristics all along the design process. However, defining these characterisitics into requirements implies to translate them into semantic terms. If we observe semantic descriptors for sport products and for health products, they seem opposite. In this paper, we aim defining a semantic space representative and respectful of both domains, sport and health, while they oppose.

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Representation of Socio-historical Context to Support the Authoring and Presentation of Multimodal Narratives: The Mingei Online Platform

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage ◽

10.1145/3465556 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

Nikolaos N. P. Partarakis ◽

Paraskevi P. D. Doulgeraki ◽

Effie E. K. Karuzaki ◽

Ilia I. A. Adami ◽

Stavroula S. N. Ntoa ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Historical Context ◽

Digital Preservation ◽

Design Approach ◽

Online Platform ◽

Domain Experts ◽

Iterative Design ◽

Evaluation Approach ◽

Human Centred Design

In this article, the Mingei Online Platform is presented as an authoring platform for the representation of social and historic context encompassing a focal topic of interest. The proposed representation is employed in the contextualised presentation of a given topic, through documented narratives that support its presentation to diverse audiences. Using the obtained representation, the documentation and digital preservation of social and historical dimensions of Cultural Heritage are demonstrated. The implementation follows the Human-Centred Design approach and has been conducted under an iterative design and evaluation approach involving both usability and domain experts.

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Human-centred design approach applied to Medical Dynamic DSS

IFAC Proceedings Volumes ◽

10.3182/20100831-4-fr-2021.00082 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 43 (13) ◽

pp. 465-470 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hela Ltifi ◽

Christophe Kolski ◽

Mounir Ben Ayed ◽

Adel M. Alimi

Keyword(s):

Design Approach ◽

Human Centred Design

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FRAMEWORK TO ASSIST IN SELECTING HUMAN CENTRED DESIGN TOOLS AND METHODS

Journal of Art & Architecture Research Studies - JAARS ◽

10.47436/jaarsfa.v1i2.72 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Ammer Harb

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Participatory Design ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Design Approach ◽

User Needs ◽

Design Tools ◽

Design Workshop ◽

Selection Framework ◽

Tools And Methods ◽

Human Centred Design

Human Centred Design is a significant approach in design. It increases the value of design as well as helping businesses to overcome the challenges of not meeting user needs. However, the abundance of Human Centred Design tools and the difficulty to discriminate between them have created the urge to develop selection framework for these tools in regard to the design process. In this paper, I present a framework to assist in selecting Human Centred Design tools. I highlight the significance of the Human Centred Design approach. I also explain the theoretical background behind creating the framework. Then I describe the participatory design workshop method I used to support and validate the results of the theoretical background in order to further develop the selection framework. This framework can be adopted in the design field in order to facilitate the process and to support practitioners’ decisions to select suitable tools.

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Human-centred design of a new microneedle-based hormonal contraceptive delivery system

Gates Open Research ◽

10.12688/gatesopenres.13233.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

pp. 96

Author(s):

Benedetta Gualeni ◽

Louise Hughes ◽

Isabelle Stauber ◽

Louise Ackers ◽

Angela Gorman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Delivery System ◽

Unmet Need ◽

Hormonal Contraceptive ◽

The Gambia ◽

Design Approach ◽

Self Administration ◽

User Research ◽

The Uk ◽

Human Centred Design

Background: It is estimated that 225 million women worldwide have an unmet need for family planning, and more than half live in low- and middle-income countries. Increasing the choice of contraceptive methods available can reduce this unmet need. Microneedle drug delivery systems represent a new technology for minimally invasive self-administration of contraceptives. We explored stakeholders’ views on different aspects of a proposed microneedle-based hormonal contraceptive delivery system. The feedback was used to iteratively develop this delivery system. Methods: Focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews were conducted with potential stakeholders (women and trans males of childbearing age, their partners, and health professionals and organisations that provide family planning advice and contraception services) in Uganda, The Gambia, Malawi, and the UK, exploring concept acceptability and gathering feedback on different aspects of design and usability of the proposed delivery system. Results: Participants viewed the concept of a new, microneedle-based contraceptive favourably. In Uganda, participants were presented with 7 different prototype applicators and identified desirable features of a preferred delivery device; their input reducing the number of prototypes that were subsequently evaluated by stakeholders in The Gambia and the UK. Participants in these countries helped to identify and/or confirm the most desirable characteristics of the applicator, resulting in design consolidation into a refined concept applicator. The final, optimised applicator prototype was validated during user research in Malawi. This human-centred design approach was also used to iteratively develop an information leaflet for the device. During these user studies, other preferred aspects of a contraceptive delivery system were also evaluated, such as anatomical site of application, duration of action, and return to fertility. Conclusions: A new microneedle-based contraceptive delivery system was iteratively developed using a human-centred design approach and was favourably received by potential stakeholders. The product is now being refined for testing in pre-clinical studies.

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Challenges and opportunities in evaluating programmes incorporating human-centred design: lessons learnt from the evaluation of Adolescents 360

Gates Open Research ◽

10.12688/gatesopenres.12998.1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. 1472

Author(s):

Aoife M. Doyle ◽

Emma Mulhern ◽

James Rosen ◽

Gabrielle Appleford ◽

Christina Atchison ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Cost Effectiveness ◽

Process Evaluation ◽

Design Process ◽

Intervention Program ◽

Outcome Evaluation ◽

Design Approach ◽

Evaluation Team ◽

Developmental Neuroscience ◽

Human Centred Design

Adolescents 360 (A360) is a four-year initiative (2016–2020) to increase 15-19-year-old girls’ use of modern contraception in Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania. The innovative A360 approach is led by human-centred design (HCD), combined with social marketing, developmental neuroscience, public health, sociocultural anthropology and youth engagement ‘lenses’, and aims to create context-specific, youth-driven solutions that respond to the needs of adolescent girls. The A360 external evaluation includes a process evaluation, quasi-experimental outcome evaluation, and a cost-effectiveness study. We reflect on evaluation opportunities and challenges associated with measuring the application and impact of this novel HCD-led design approach. For the process evaluation, participant observations were key to capturing the depth of the fast-paced, highly-iterative HCD process, and to understand decision-making within the design process. The evaluation team had to be flexible and align closely with the work plan of the implementers. The HCD process meant that key information such as intervention components, settings, and eligible populations were unclear and changed over outcome evaluation and cost-effectiveness protocol development. This resulted in a more time-consuming and resource-intensive study design process. As much time and resources went into the creation of a new design approach, separating one-off “creation” costs versus those costs associated with actually implementing the programme was challenging. Opportunities included the potential to inform programmatic decision-making in real-time to ensure that interventions adequately met the contextualized needs in targeted areas. Robust evaluation of interventions designed using HCD, a promising and increasingly popular approach, is warranted yet challenging. Future HCD-based initiatives should consider a phased evaluation, focusing initially on programme theory refinement and process evaluation, and then, when the intervention program details are clearer, following with outcome evaluation and cost-effectiveness analysis. A phased approach would delay the availability of evaluation findings but would allow for a more appropriate and tailored evaluation design.

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An adaptive and strategic human-centred design approach to shaping pandemic design education that promotes wellbeing

Strategic Design Research Journal ◽

10.4013/sdrj.2021.141.09 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 102-113

Author(s):

Mieke Van der Bijl-Brouwer ◽

Rebecca Anne Price

Keyword(s):

Design Education ◽

Systems Approach ◽

Complex Adaptive System ◽

Design Approach ◽

Student Wellbeing ◽

Complex Adaptive ◽

The University ◽

Staff Experiences ◽

Human Centred Design ◽

The Way

Positive student wellbeing is intrinsically connected to positive learning outcomes. Students learn more when they feel well, and the way we shape education influences the way students feel. The COVID-19 crisis has forced us to radically change our design education and is having a large impact on student wellbeing and learning. While some students manage well to adapt to the new circumstances, others struggle and face challenges such as risk of burnout, lack of motivation, and social isolation. In this paper we describe how we approached this challenge by applying methods and principles from strategic human-centred design and systems thinking. The strategic design approach included researching values and patterns in student and staff experiences. The systems approach meant that we saw the university as a complex adaptive system, which focused our activities on connecting staff and students who were and are running multiple creative experiments to promote student wellbeing. This approach is strategic because it supports continuous design and implementation of initiatives to promote wellbeing. While this is work in progress, we here present a number of design principles that we developed through this work that enable future designs that promote student wellbeing in (pandemic) higher education.

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