blue science park – Design for Wellbeing

Two wellbeing projects in Extreme PSS project course

Tobias Larsson — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:30:34 +0000

Students in the MSc programmes in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Management and Engineering have completed their final product-service innovation projects in the course Extreme Product-Service Innovation. The students have been working on different challenges relating to construction equipment and health care in projects that are aimed at allowing the students to use their engineering skills and tools “In Real Life” with real corporate partners, thus preparing them for their coming work life.

For this batch two teams choose to work with the Design for Wellbeing “angle” together with Blue Science Park and Region Blekinge.

Extreme Product-Service Innovation class 2018/19.

The Projects

This year’s challenges have come from Region Blekinge (formerly County Council Blekinge), Blue Science Park, Dynapac and Volvo Construction equipment. A major focus has been on how to design and enable future concepts for health care and construction respectively, given that more capabilities for digitalization are becoming available.

Blue Science Park

The focus of this project has been on increased independence and wellbeing for people who are in need of increased assistance but still not eligible for full home care initiatives. Some solutions can be attractive enough and make people’s lives better so that they want to consume the solutions (whether it’s products and/or services) privately. Based on needfinding, the students have come up with a solution called C-Connect that consists of a watch band that has sensors and a button. The sensors will monitor information regarding a person’s health status. The information that will be monitored is body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood oxygen. The button will be an emergency button, that the seniors can use to contact someone when needed. Coupled with this the students have developed an app that supports the integration with different stakeholders.

C-Connect solution.

Region Blekinge

The focus of the two Region Blekinge projects was on Mobile Teams and enabling the Care Ward to be in the patients’ homes. With this approach, the idea is both to make better use of resources and also to make care better in quality and more comfortable for the patients who should not need to go to the hospital unless it is absolutely necessary.

With the Mobile teams project created a platform that supports the mobile teams in planning and management of the activities that move out of the hospital. By streamlining multiple processes and collecting all activities under one combined platform the concept will increase both efficiency and patient’s desirability. The solution combines capabilities in logistics, data collection, and digital communication within a smart and easy to use the platform.

Mobile teams interface.

With the Care Ward at Home project, the students have devised a concept called LARM, which is a system of sensors that collect data from the user and communicate to the user via an app. The data is also sent to a monitoring center at the hospital that evaluates the results. By alleviating the patients from having to go to the hospital and instead of remaining in their homes, there is more space cleared up at the hospital for the patients who are more in emergency conditions instead.

LARM interface.

For more information see below site:

Extreme Product-Service Innovation 2018/19 completed

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C-connect – The future of medical monitoring

Tobias Larsson — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:15:51 +0000

Challenge: A solution that delays the need of help from the home care in Karlskrona

Solution: In the future the population of seniors is expected to grow. This is a problem for the society since the workers will have to take care of more seniors. Therefore a solution that delays the need of help from the home care is necessary. When examine current problems among seniors, the project team found two common safety issues. The first one is that seniors felt more safe when they knew that someone was checking up on them, to know that the person is alright. The second one is that seniors felt more safe if they could contact someone when needed.

The solution was a watch band that have sensors and a button. The sensors will monitor information regarding a person’s health status. The information that will be monitored is body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar and blood oxygen. This to fulfill the first issue. The button will be an emergency button, that the seniors can use to contact someone when needed. This to fulfill the second issue.

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Ny satsning på eHälsa – eHealth Innovation

Tobias Larsson — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:01:15 +0000

Blue Science Park har fått projektet eHealth Innovation beviljat. Projektets målsättning är att skapa tillväxt i företagen inom området eHälsa genom att öka de offentliga aktörernas innovationsförmåga i sju pilotprojekt.

Läs mer här: https://www.bluesciencepark.se/ehalsa/article/ny-satsning-pa-ehalsa-ehealth-innovation/

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Test-arena Blekinge – Behandling på distans

Tobias Larsson — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:04:06 +0000

Syfte
Hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar är den vanligaste dödsorsaken i Sverige, både hos kvinnor och hos män. Ungefär hälften av västvärldens befolkning insjuknar och dör i någon av dessa sjukdomar. I Sverige har 12 procent av befolkningen någon hjärt- eller kärlsjukdom.

Projektmål

Att genom forskning och produktutveckling ta fram tekniska lösningar riktat till personer med kronisk hjärtsvikt genom vilka patienten, anhöriga och sjukvårdspersonal kan övervaka och följa upp vitala parametrar relaterade till diagnosen, och med hjälp av AI prediktera försämringar i sjukdomsförloppet och på så sätt reducera antalet sjukbesök samt att öka tryggheten och patientens kunskap om sin diagnos.
Utveckla en testbädd i vilken tekniska lösningar ska kunna testas och valideras. Projektet är ett av sex delprojekt i Test-arena Blekinge och genomförs i samverkan med forskare på Blekinge Tekniska Högskola och näringslivet i Blekinge.

Läs mer: https://www.bluesciencepark.se/ehalsa/article/test-arena-blekinge-behandling-pa-distans/

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Designing for Lymphedema patients

Tobias Larsson — Tue, 23 May 2017 11:55:47 +0000

In the Design Thinking course, students from the MSPI-program and the Mechanical Engineering MSc program have explored issues relating to diagnosis and treatment of Lymphedema. Based on need analysis, ideation, and a prototyping approach, the students have developed concepts for how to address these issues, focusing on merging user desirability, with feasibility and viability from a business perspective.

The project has been initiated by and performed in collaboration with Blue Science Park and the SICAHTproject. Lymphedema disease provides one of the opportunities for innovation within the healthcare sector, which has been identified in an extensive mapping of needs that are yet to be fulfilled to a satisfactory level, given opportunities that comes with modern technologies and E-health.

Lymphedema is an illness that frequently affects people who has gone through cancer treatments. It is important to discover and begin effective treatment already in the early stages to manage the most severe effects of the illness. Current methods rely to a great extent on access to scarce resources within the healthcare system. Therefore, the students have investigated if there are opportunities to make identification and treatment more independent and effortless for users to manage on their own.

Several projects within “Lymphedema area” was explored, see all info below.

Designing for Lymphedema patients (MT2547)

Unlocking the secrets of the human body with Hololens at SICAHT/Blue Science Park

Tobias Larsson — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:06:52 +0000

Together with Bengt-Åke Claesson of CGI (Karlskrona Office), Ryan Ruvald (research assistant at PDRL/BTH) took part in the SICAHT/Blue Science Park breakfast meeting. The team presented possibilities with Augmented Reality in the healthcare sector using Microsoft Hololens as demonstrator platform.

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