Human Centred Collaborative Design: An Institutional Approach

Human Centred Collaborative Design: An Institutional Approach

Robert LukeGeorge Brown College

Outline

Context: Canadian productivity College applied research Innovation Support Services Project examples Students

Canada’s Innovation Gap

13th out of 17 countries (OECD) “D” for innovation: “it’s been a D for decades”

– Conference Board of Canada, How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada

Canada's ‘Capacity to innovate’: C-– Global Insight

Canada’s innovation rated Mediocre– Canada's Science, Technology and Innovation

Council (STIC) State of the Nation 2008

College Applied Research

Helps boost Canadian productivity– Canada is second in OECD for HERD; 12th in BERD

• HERD: Higher Education Expenditures on R&D• BERD: Business Expenditures on R&D

Firms are not making effective use of postsecondary R&D capabilities– “We’ve gone too far in subsidizing R&D, and not

far enough in subsidizing diffusion of innovation.” (Sharpe 2009)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DiffusionOfInnovation.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DiffusionOfInnovation.png

Innovation Support Services

Help industry to Validate practicality and usability of new

technologies/products/processes Simulate impact of their use Adapt those technologies for deployment under

diverse conditions

Testing practicality and market/user/practice adoption and adaptation

From discovery to design

Multidisciplinary Collaborative Problem Solving The intentional application of applied

research and innovation services to industry needs and contexts

Uses college verticals in a horizontal integration strategy

http://www.sdtc.ca/en/about/innovation_chain.htm

Fundamental Research

Applied Research

Technology Development & Demonstration

(Pilot to Full Scale)

ProductCommercialization

& MarketDevelopment

MarketEntry &MarketVolume

http://www.sdtc.ca/en/about/innovation_chain.htm

Human Centred Design

Participatory design Grounded in the understanding of real-world

practices of users and user communities

Funding

The College and Community Innovation Program, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Colleges Ontario Network for Industry Innovation (CONII), MRI

Examples

Diabetes Portal Health eHome Heart Monitoring Vest

Diabetes Portal

Industry partner Dr Michael Evans, Director of the Health

Media Innovation Lab, St. Michael's HospitalGBC Team Members Jean-Paul Amore, Michael Sanderson, Curtis

Jones, Navi Hayer, Carlos Alcoser, Kimberley Perriera, Amy Wong – School of Design

Diabetes Portal

A web-based portal for patients to access information on the complex issues around diabetes in a variety of approachable electronic formats

Needs to speak to diverse users Phase 1: develop multimedia content

prototypes for persons 55 year of age and older who have been prescribed insulin secretagogues for type 2 diabetes

Diabetes Portal

Michael Evans, Lori MacCullumHealth Media and Innovation Lab, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital

Diabetes Portal

Health eHome

Industry partners Origin Retirement Communities; Saint Elizabeth Health Care;

The Town of Markham; St. Michael’s Hospital; McMaster University; Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto; Centre for Global eHealth Innovation; CMHC

GBC Team Members Monica Contreras1; Khalid Danok2; Iris Epstein3; Luigi Ferrara4;

Julie Gaudet3; Anna Milan1; and Katrina Senyk1 – 1 Institute without Boundaries– 2 School of Computer Technology – 3 Nursing– 4 School of Design

Health eHome

Part of the Inclusive Design Institute– J. Treviranus (PI) University of Toronto– Partners: George Brown College, Ontario College

of Art and Design, Sheridan College, Seneca College, Ryerson University, York University

– Funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation

Health eHome

How can living environments promote safety, health, and quality of life for residents?

Can homes be adaptive to their occupants?

Health eHome

Component of the Interprofessional Online Research and Technology Assessment Laboratory (IPORTAL)

25000 sq.ft. Simulated Practice Centre Centre for Health Sciences,

new Waterfront Campus2-way mirror

Observation Room

Healthy Home configurable apartment40’

40’

10’

20’

Health eHome

Integrating multiple health sciences disciplines with design, construction and engineering technology

Research and development activities designed to shorten adoption times for new health products, protocols and processes in the context of interprofessional practice

Heart Monitoring Vest

Industry Partners Ocorant Inc. Ross and Doell Industrial DesignGBC Team Members Marsha Jorgensen1; Angella Mackey1; Ken

Mantle2; Gita McAllister3; and Jenna Patterson1

– 1 Fashion Techniques and Design– 2 Engineering Technology– 3 Nursing


Vest Design Challenge To design a vest that enables its wearer to

place six electrodes in the exact same place on their chest each day for up to 30 days, without the help of a nurse.


Design hurdles: How will the patient know

where to place the electrodes? How will the vest design account for multiple variations of the electrode placement?


Rapid prototyping In order to solve the design

challenges the fashion design students fabricated weekly rapid prototypes out of paper, cotton, Velcro and rough fasteners.


New prototypes were produced weekly, becoming more complex as new solutions were unfolded.

Others

Advanced Patient Education for Cancer Survivorship (APECS)– OCAD (Funded by SSHRC)

Building Recipes and Understanding Nutrition for Cancer-survivorship Health (BRUNCH)– Princess Margaret Hospital

Real-time Locating System for Improved Infection Control– Infonaut, Inc.

Innovation Literacy

Students gain research, problem solving, leadership and entrepreneurship skills, and the ability to recognize innovation in the product development lifecycle

Highly Qualified and Skilled Personnel – flexible innovators in the workforce

Contact

Robert Luke, Ph.D.Assistant Vice PresidentResearch and Innovation

George Brown [email protected]

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Human Centred Collaborative Design: An Institutional Approach

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