takeUthere: Sound-driven relaxation APP design for nurse

Abstract

takeUthere is a digital product design for nurses in the hospital to reduce working stress during work break time. As the professions that help people solve health problems, the hospital staff pay attention to the patientʼs physical condition all the time, including nurses, they face complex and difficult tasks every day. During the work, they need to follow orders from the head nurse and physicians, regulate mood for patients and their families, monitor the medical equipment, track the data and write reports for information sharing with colleagues, etc. This type of work challenges a nurse's professional skills, psychological enduring capacity, sense organ enduring capacity. Metally overwhelming becomes normal status in nursesʼ daily working time. Therefore, providing a balance between sensory and mental during the work break by regulating their mood has its value to be explored. This graduation project aims to solve this problem by introducing a product/service solution. It cooperates with TU Delft Critical Alarms Lab, which focuses on sound-related research and design, in the area of healthcare, academic hospitals, etc. The main goal is to reduce the daily working pressure of nurses through sound and music, therefore creating a positive mood to face their work. The outcome of the project - takeUthere digital product introduced a sound-driven experience in which nurses can enjoy short-term relaxation. It provides detailed sound from a daily office object. The user needs to find it and scan it on the APP. Then it delivers a fantastic charming scenario with 360-degree panorama visuals cooperating with relaxing scenario music. The final design includes APP user experience design, panorama visual design, and scenario sound editing. Moreover, it successfully convinced 8 participants with its unique fun experience. It shows the values for further development possibilities and improvement ideas. It also concluded new implementation opportunities areas followed by future recommendations. The project leads to the following conclusions: (1)Away from stress - design for nurses to use during work break. (2)Suitable for different types of user habits. (3)Simplified interaction yet targeting the problem. (4)Be engaged in the short story. takeUthere, let the sound bring you to a scenario that you ever dreamt of.