Towards a convergent approach to the use of data in digital health design

Digital health is a vibrant and dynamic field, encompassing subsets such as mobile health, health information technology, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalised medicine. While digital health adoption has been markedly accelerated by the covid-19 pandemic (Inkster et al., 2020), an evolving body of research has focused...

From digital health to learning health systems: four approaches to using data for digital health design

Digital health technologies, powered by digital data, provide an opportunity to improve the efficacy and efficiency of health systems at large. However, little is known about different approaches to the use of data for digital health design, or about their possible relations to system-level dynamics. In this contribution, we identify four...

Finding the land, planting first seeds: lead user research in early stage design for intelligent ecosystems

This contribution explores the potential of lead user research for early-stage designing for intelligent ecosystems through a literature review and a single case study concerning a lead user research initiative on blood pressure monitoring. The results suggest advantages of executing lead user research in early-stage designing for intelligent...

Effortless interactions for emergency care

This thesis presents a research and subsequent design intervention developed in the context of a Design for Interaction graduation assignment called Effortless interactions in Emergency Care. The design process was characterized by a strong focus on analysis, and in particular on user research, which included intense inquiry activities such as...