scholarly journals A Mobile Swabbing Booth to Address Singapore GPs’ Concerns About Swabber Protection: Human-Centred Design during the COVID-19 Pandemic 

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boon See Teo ◽  
Esther Li ◽  
Yi-Lin Khoo ◽  
Michelle Evaristo ◽  
Yang Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioners ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
High User ◽  
Human Centred Design

Abstract BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health asked Singapore’s private general practitioners (GPs) to perform swab testing in their clinics, but some GPs had concerns about swabber protection. Our aim was to develop a swabbing booth to address these concerns.MethodsWe developed a prototype with potential GP users using a human-centred design approach and piloted it with 10 GP clinics. The pilot was then extended to 170 GP clinics around Singapore. These GPs were then surveyed on user satisfaction.Results93 GPs (54%) responded. The majority (75%) practiced in public residential estates in small practices (mean 1.93 doctors). 86% requested the booth to enhance swabber protection. 74% “would recommend” or “would strongly recommend” the booth to colleagues. 79% continue to use the booth to conduct swab tests. 92% liked that it offered swabber protection. 71% liked that the booth created a separate space for swabbing and 64% liked its ease of disinfection. 47% started swabbing only after receiving the booth and 58% said the booth was “important” or “very important” to their decision to participate in swab testing. However, 34% disliked that it took up too much space and the most frequently critiqued area was the gloves.ConclusionThe human-centred design approach generated a product that had high user satisfaction, addressed GPs’ concerns of swabber protection and increased GPs’ participation in swab testing. The booth may be useful where GPs are concerned about swabber protection and space is limited.

scholarly journals A mobile swabbing booth to address Singapore GPs’ concerns about swabber protection: human-centred design during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boon See Teo ◽  
Esther Li ◽  
Yi-Lin Khoo ◽  
Michelle Evaristo ◽  
Yang Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioners ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Ministry Of Health ◽  
High User ◽  
Human Centred Design

Abstract Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health asked Singapore’s private general practitioners (GPs) to perform swab testing in their clinics, but some GPs had concerns about swabber protection. Our aim was to develop a swabbing booth to address these concerns. Methods We developed a prototype with potential GP users using a human-centred design approach and piloted it with 10 GP clinics. The pilot was then extended to 170 GP clinics around Singapore. These GPs were then surveyed on user satisfaction. Results Ninety-three GPs (54%) responded. The majority (75%) practiced in public residential estates in small practices (mean 1.95 doctors). 86% requested the booth to enhance swabber protection. 74% “would recommend” or “would strongly recommend” the booth to colleagues. 79% continue to use the booth to conduct swab tests. 92% liked that it offered swabber protection. 71% liked that the booth created a separate space for swabbing and 64% liked its ease of disinfection. 47% started swabbing only after receiving the booth and 58% said the booth was “important” or “very important” to their decision to participate in swab testing. However, 34% disliked that it took up too much space and the most frequently critiqued area was the gloves. Conclusion The human-centred design approach generated a product that had high user satisfaction, addressed GPs’ concerns of swabber protection and increased GPs’ participation in swab testing. The booth may be useful where GPs are concerned about swabber protection and space is limited.

scholarly journals A Smartphone Application Significantly Improved Diabetes Self-Care Activities with High User Satisfaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Jin Kim ◽  
Sang Youl Rhee ◽  
Jong Kyu Byun ◽  
So Young Park ◽  
Soo Min Hong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
High User

A Review of Digital Health Design Approaches: Challenges Towards Real World Implementation (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Duffy ◽  
Sylvain Moreno ◽  
Greg Christie
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Stakeholder Group ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Intervention Design ◽  
Growing Pains

BACKGROUND Digital health represents an important strategy in the future of healthcare delivery. Over the past decade, mHealth has accelerated the agency of healthcare users. Despite prevailing excitement about the potential of digital health, questions remain on efficacy, uptake, usability and patience outcome. This challenge is confounded by two industries, DIGITAL and HEALTH, that have vastly different approaches to research, design, testing and implementation. In this regard, there is a need to examine prevailing design approaches, to weigh their benefits and challenges towards implementation, and to recommend a path forward that synthesises the needs of this complex stakeholder group. OBJECTIVE This review studies prominent digital health intervention (DHI) design approaches mediating the digital health space. In doing so, we seek to examine each methodology’s: origins, perceived benefits, contrasting nuances, challenges, and typical use-case scenarios. METHODS A narrative synthesis approach to literature review was employed to review existing evidence. We searched indexed scientific literature using keywords relative to different digital health intervention designs. Papers selected after screening were those that discussed the design and implementation of digital health design approaches. RESULTS 120 papers on intervention design were selected for full-text review. We selected the 20 most prominent papers on each design approach, synthesizing findings under the categories of origins, advantages, disadvantages, challenges and cases. CONCLUSIONS Digital health is experiencing the growing pains of rapid expansion. Currently, numerous design approaches are being implemented in order to harmonise the needs of a complex stakeholder group. Whether the primary stakeholder is positioned as the end-user/person/human/patient, the challenge to synthesise the constraints and affordances of both digital design and healthcare, built equally around user satisfaction and clinically efficacy remains paramount. Further research that works towards a transdisciplinarity in digital health may help to break down friction in this field. Until digital health is viewed as a hybridised industry with unique requirements rather than competing interests, the nuances that each design approach posits will be difficult to realise in a real world context. We encourage the collaboration of digital and health experts within hybrid design teams, through all stages of intervention design, in order to create a better digital health culture and design ethos.

scholarly journals Transforming Young Minds Socially through, a Course Social Innovation with a Human Centred Design Approach at Freshman Level of Engineering.

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (0) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Jayanti Shinge ◽  
Sanjay V. Kotabagi ◽  
Geeta M. ◽  
Christina Rebello ◽  
Sujatha N. M. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Human Centred Design

scholarly journals Definition of a “Sport-Health” Semantic Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3841-3850
Author(s):  
Antoine Millet ◽  
Audrey Abi Akle ◽  
Dimitri Masson ◽  
Jérémy Legardeur
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Product Success ◽  
Health Products ◽  
Perceptual Characteristics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Health Sport ◽  
Human Centred Design

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.

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

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 ◽  
...  
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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