AMJ

This paper illustrates how people with ostomies and care-givers might communicate with researchers, and how relevant design information is extracted and structured. On a more general level, results show how environment-related dimensions of human functioning differ from medical aspects, and how direct involvement of end-users enriches the content of design information.

This paper positions everyday environments as critical for maximizing the wellbeing of people who have impairments which are not readily visible to the incidental observer. These people need or desire to live their lives in the community. Specifically, the discussion focuses on the implications for individuals with autism, acquired brain injury (ABI) and other forms of cognitive impairment.

Innovation is generated when designers collaborate with scientists and clinicians. Who are designers? Professionals trained to uncover people’s spoken and unspoken needs (human factors researchers), to generate tangible products and services that address these needs in new and better ways (industrial and graphic designers), and to ensure that the design intent is preserved in the final manufactured form (engineers).

It is time for a new way of thinking about medication adherence, one that is centred on patients and their needs. By understanding adherence as an integrated design problem, interventions can be targeted to solve critical challenges.

This article reviews the practice of teaching in design studios where students of design listen to the voices of people with diabetes and visualize ways for design to provide products and service solutions that transform the lived experiences of people with diabetes.

From an academic point of view, environment-related dimensions of human functioning differ from medical aspects, but from the perspective of the individual person, both are integral parts of the homeostatic (self-)regulation of the internal and external environment of the human organism.

This paper delineates and discusses the concept, “patient-centred design.”  It focuses on patient-centredness and the definition of design as a process as well as the variety of end products of design.  This also includes a discussion of several specific approaches to design. The authors suggest how interdisciplinary collaboration works to address the challenges of patient-centred design.