[Open Design + Hardware] Seeking open hardware projects in medico/health sector

Wed Jul 29 09:15:20 UTC 2015

Hi Christian and Gerrit,

This is a topic that is very close to my heart. I have recently completed my PhD thesis on the open design of medical products, and while I have had a short break from nose-to-the grindstone open design research (post-doc role) I would be very, very interested in coming along to your seminar Christian.

My work was how open design could be used as a tool to enable participation in the user-centred (participatory) design of medical products, for people who are automatically barred from the process due to their clinical condition. I worked with people who live with cystic fibrosis (who cannot meet one another because they’re immunocompromised) and we collaboratively worked on some medical product concepts (all EU Class I, interestingly) from their lived experience as lead users… I’m leaving out citations for readability - but I can provide references to all this research if anyone would like.

So yeah, my interest / focus was leveraging open design not from a purely ideological stance (if indeed, anyone ever does), but I suppose from a more pragmatic stance of ‘how on earth do I enable participation for these folks?’

Stupidly, I wrote my thesis in MS Word (it was easiest to share chapters initially on Uni machines for group comment), but Word SUCKS at creating PDF files. I’m happy to provide a download link to the (135mb!) PDF as it stands, or you can sit tight while I finish copying & pasting into InDesign to get it down to ~13mb. If anyone is interested, that is.

Great to ‘meet’ you, and I look forward to (hopefully) coming to Copenhagen in a few weeks.

Kind regards,

Matt Dexter PhD

Designer & Researcher
CLAHRC YH
Teleheath, User Experience & Participatory Design

Art & Design Research Centre
Sheffield Hallam University

(+44) 0770 88 04341
matt.dexter at shu.ac.uk
@matt_dexter
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