17 research outputs found
Design children's products with industries and users
No full textThe paper describes the integration of user-centered research methods focused on steps to create ideas for developing innovative and interactive environments for children. The research project called Babylandia is a project co-financed by the Lombardy region in which they have actively participated in the five companies with the aim of producing new products for children through the use of user-centered methodologies
Designing Wearable and Environmental Systems for Elderly Monitoring at Home
No full textThis work presents a research on assistive technology acceptability conducted in the framework of a wider public funded project called MAMMA (Multimodal Ageing Monitoring and Assistance) involving companies, university and a health care institution aimed at developing a telemonitoring system to support autonomously living elderly people.
MAMMA system is aimed to connect permanently elderly patients with their relatives and care givers. In this way, users can continue to live their everyday life with naturality but continuously monitored as in the hospital. In case of anomalous events or health conditions, the system will provide an alarm to care givers and relatives. The monitoring is based on the collection of biological data (ECG and blood pressure) and information related to users movements. The collected data are transmitted to a hub where they are processed, compared and evaluated. The hub is able to create patterns between biological condition and movements (if the user is sleeping, walking, falling...) and define anomalous situations. Eventual alarms are transmitted to the remote assistant & health management.
In our hypothesis, if it is possible to provide this technology to elderly people and if they accept it, then it will be easy to use it for social improvement goals. In the situation where technological issues are solved, acceptability is the key factor. For this reason we developed a multidisciplinary approach to design systems and services that can match the specific needs of elderly users
Ergonomics and Design in Healthcare: a Multifactorial User-Centred Approach to Biomedical Assistive Devices
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The Integration of Environmental and Human Sustainability. The Babylandia case study
No full textThis paper presents a design research called Babylandia aimed at applying human and environmental sustainability principles to support co-design processes and appraise how different scientific data can efficiently be communicated for design purposes. To this aim, we have developed our own set of tools and experimented them in 4 workshops. Babylandia is a public cofounded project for the promotion of excellence in industrial districts of Lombardy region. The goal of the project is to prototype and evaluate children’s products for home and collective spaces with the involvement of both university and local companie
Ergonomics and design for sustainability in healthcare: ambient assisted living and the social-environmental impact of patients lifestyle
No full textThis work presents considerations on Ergonomics and Design for Sustainability in the healthcare field based on research experiences of the Technology and Design for Healthcare (TeDH) research group of INDACO (Industrial design, communication, arts and fashion) department of Politecnico di Milano. In order to develop a multidisciplinary approach to design able to answer to specific user needs such as elderly in an environmental sustainable way (1) this paper shows the re- sults we achieved concerning ergonomics and environmental impact in product development (2), the extension of this approach to interior and home design and the advantage of the application of Information Communication Technologies (ICT). ICT can help people with special needs to make their everyday life easier and more safe, at the same time, ICT can make social- environmental impact of everyday behavior evident and can be applied to manage sustainability. The specific theme is thus to integrate ergonomics and sustainability competences in the development of Ambient Assisted Living through a Product- Service System approach. The concept of product service system has the potential to improve product performances and ser- vices, establish new relations and networks with different actors in order to satisfy user needs and apply a systems approach considering environmental, social and economic factors in the users’ environment
Sustainable Children’s Product Experience. University collaboration with Italian industry in Lombardy Region
No full textThis paper presents a design research called Babylandia aimed at applying human and environmental sustainability principles to support co-design processes and appraise how different scientific data can efficiently be communicated for design purposes. To this aim, we have developed our own set of tools and experimented them in 4 workshops. Babylandia is a public cofounded project for the promotion of excellence in industrial districts of Lombardy region. The goal of the project is to prototype and evaluate children’s products for home and collective spaces with the involvement of both university and local companies
