Research paper published at International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2015, Design for Life, Milan, Italy, 27-30 July, 2015. Abstract Designing systems working in health care needs complying with the heterogeneous, overlapping, non-overlapping, competing, or even contradicting requirements expressed by the various actors of the health care complex environment, including regulatory bodies. The unification method […]
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Associate Professor Sharon Kao-Walter visited RICOH in Tokyo, Japan, in order to get updated on their recent plans for the area of applied health technology. During the visit there also were discussions on the close collaborative mode of operation that exists between academia and companies in Japan. For more information: Product Development Research Lab Director, Professor Tobias […]
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Objectives: The project will provide a cost-effective development of sustainable e-health related services and products. This should be done by various pilot project demonstrators to create realistic scenarios. Primarily this is done for the County Council of Blekinge but also other potential customers may be targeted. The project will create a technological-medical frontier area that can […]
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Objectives: Design for Wellbeing redirects the focus of product development from technology-based development, via needs-based development, to participative product development and innovation. By adapting a multidisciplinary approach, involving health sciences and engineering disciplines, we are able to manage the entire development cycle from an initial understanding of usersÂ’ needs to studies of finished products in use. […]
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