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DHW Lab

@dhwlab

Design for Health and Wellbeing Lab - a design research collaboration between AUT University & ADHB.

 New Zealand
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Joined March 2014
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New work published- Prototyping an emotionally responsive hospital environment tandfonline.com/eprint/VUUPk…

Prototyping an emotionally responsive hospital environment

This case study presents a project based on a spatial redesign at Auckland City Hospital. The project aimed to improve the public waiting area located outside an intensive care unit – a space where...

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Call for papers now out! Excited to launch new artefact-led proposals, along with papers and posters #D4H18 #design4health2018 @Lab4Living @C3RINews research.shu.ac.uk/design4he… @dhwlab @CLAHRCYH @JoeLangley_ @wolstenholme_d
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For an assignment, I asked some of my terminal paediatric palliative care patients what they had enjoyed in life, and what gave it meaning. Kids can be so wise, y'know. Here are some of the responses (Thread).
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Claire Craig presenting her research at the @ahrcpress @AHRCDesignLF Next Generation Design Research workshop at @SheffieldHallam
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We are testing out some new workshop tools for our upcoming co-design workshops with @providence_hlth to reimagine the front entrance experience for the new St. Paul’s Hospital - email us if you’re interested in participating!
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Why doctors should be thinking like designers: archdg.co/EKwlmpV
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Some say everything in healthcare is design, and that we can all learn to use design thinking. @kimbellard asks: so why is healthcare still so poorly designed? @BonKu @joyclee @ideo @jeanphony tincture.io/everything-in-he…
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Save the Date! @design4health #d4h2018
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new papers on co-design in health to support the session #research2017 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Thanks @ArchDigest for featuring our design program for doctors! architecturaldigest.com/stor…
Why Doctors Should Be Thinking Like Designers

Why Doctors Should Be Thinking Like Designers

A new program aims to train the next generation of doctors to approach everything from medical devices to systemic public health challenges with a sense of creativity and curiosity

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Research paper just published by our postgrad student Emma, exploring the role of end users in medical illustration. tandfonline.com/eprint/gxhW4…
Visual representation of medical information: the importance of considering the end-user in the...

Visual representation of medical information: the importance of considering the end-user in the...

This practice led research project explored visual representation through illustrations designed to communicate often complex medical information for different users within Auckland City Hospital, ...

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Enjoyed reading this in-depth description of human-centred design and prototyping in healthcare. Nice use of ‘how might we’ statements to move past opposing views @WMTYScot @PersonCntrdSco teapawt.net/dhwlab/status/95116065…
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New work published- Prototyping an emotionally responsive hospital environment tandfonline.com/eprint/VUUPk…

Prototyping an emotionally responsive hospital environment

This case study presents a project based on a spatial redesign at Auckland City Hospital. The project aimed to improve the public waiting area located outside an intensive care unit – a space where...

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Replying to @AndrewMIbrahim @AnnalsofSurgery @Atul_Gawande @jdimick1 @FutureDocs @AcademicSurgery @NEJM @Heart_BMJ @BJSurgery @ccpractitioner @OlivierBranford
3/ #VisualAbstract : Design Principles & Developing Your Design Skill Set from @BonKu with links to @dhwlab @ideo @stanforddschool #VisualAbstract Primer download: SurgeryRedesign.com/resource…
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Photo shoot at the Health Design Lab, a space where students & doctors create and prototype solutions.
Image from Bon Ku, MD, MPP (@BonKu)
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Head Up Launch Day! Hoorah!! @Devices4Dignity @SheffieldHosp @sheffielduni @sheffhallamuni @mndassoc #alssymp17
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Join us at Design4Health2018 to carry on the conversations! Next year, the conference comes back to Sheffield, UK 4-6 Sep 2018 #d4h17 #d4h18 design4health.org.uk/confere…
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#D4H17 the themes from the last few days as captured in the main room
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Hope you’ve had a brilliant time at #d4h17 - thanks so much to Kurt and the team for an amazing week at MCG with @CDIengage @Lab4Living
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Antonio Wan @dhwlab Finding the intersection b/w technical & emotional in product design #D4H17 – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Charlotte Dickson on codesigning with long term tracheostomy users. People living with tracheostomy eager to improve experiences for others.
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