D4H2011 Archive
In 2011, we were pleased to welcome a range of specialists from health and design as our keynote speakers:
Professor Alan Newell, MBE FRSE, is based at the School of Computing, University of Dundee. His work examines the technical challenges older people have with the use of technology, and uses professional theatre to raise awareness and facilitate discussion on these issues.
“Protected Living”
Technology offers to assist in maintaining the health and safety of older people who want to stay in their own homes – as well as reducing local authority budgets. But what are the design and usability issues that need to be addressed to actually make this work?
Professor Roger Coleman is Professor Emeritus of the Royal College of Art. Roger is a specialist in design and ageing, and patient safety.
Evidence-based Design for Patient Safety
- – or how do we convince NHS decision-makers that design is about more than having neat ideas?
Through a series of collaborative design cases studies between the RCA, the NPSA, Imperial College and St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, Roger will explore the central role of research-driven design in tackling patient safety – a major 21st century challenge – and ways of approaching the difficult problem of providing an evidence-base for design in healthcare.
Miles Ayling is Director of Innovation and Service Improvement at the UK Department of Health. His team has policy responsibility for innovation and reconfiguration of services in Primary Care Trusts and hospitals, focussing on long-term conditions (including care planning, case management, self care and assistive technology)
Christoph Zellweger is a contemporary jeweller, based in Switzerland and Professor of Art and Design, Sheffield Hallam University
Incredibles: An artistic perspective on corporal design
The human body has become the subject of design, a commodity to be optimised and aestheticised. This paper reports on an ongoing artistic enquiry into the constructed world of objects, bodies and identities.
Professor Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Professor of Design and Assessment of
Technology and Head of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Group at the Faculty of Informatics in the Vienna University of Technology. Geraldine has a clinical background as a nurse and midwife. Her design work focusses on technology-support for healthcare, health and well-being and older people.
New challenges for health IT – design fit for life
Technology is seen as the critical enabler for moving care out of clinical settings into patients’ hands and homes, and for empowering people to be active in their own health and well-being. This presents a radically different design space for health IT and for health practice; it fundamentally challenges our notions of patient, clinician, care and home. I’d like to reflect on some of these challenges and ask how we can design technologies that fit into our lives and deliver value to both the people who use them and their care providers.
Follow the links on the left for information on our Keynote speakers – further details are being finalised and will be added soon.