sicaht – Design for Wellbeing

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)

Wellbeing project in course

Tobias Larsson — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:09:57 +0000

Using their achieved engineering skills to solve real challenges from real industrial companies is an important and inspiring challenge for the almost ready engineering students and a central part of the “In Real Life” mantra that BTH students practice. This years’ breed of Innovative product development students from three different programs have come together to address challenges from four different partner organizations.

SICAHT

The students working with SICAHT (http://www.sicaht.org) were given an open problem of how use of digital technologies could have a transformative impact on the healthcare sector. An important task for the students was to frame the problem and define for themselves what they wanted to change with their solution. The students targeted loneliness among elderly people, who may have been dealt a life changing experience such as losing a near relative, which significantly altered their social networks. Based on extensive user research they came up with the solution of the “Golden Experience”, which is a social network directly aimed at members being at least 65 who needs a nudge into more social activities and interactions.

The Golden Experience

More info below

PSS Extreme Innovation 2015/16 completed

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Digital health technology workshop

Tobias Larsson — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 11:47:47 +0000

A workshop on digital health, with focus on how technology may assist personal wellness was arranged within SICAHT (Swedish Innovation Center for Applied Health Technology) at Hyper Island. Professor Tobias Larsson and entrepreneur Sebastian Sjöberg (QHelf) ran the workshop.

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