Forskare från BTH ska studera hur människor i Tanzania arbetar med design och utveckling med syftet att öka deras förmåga att designa mer framgångsrika produkter. Projektet stöttas av Vetenskapsrådet och syftar till att stödja mikroföretag i…
Center for TeleMedicine – Sustainable products and services…
PROJECT SUMMARY The project will provide a cost-effective development of sustainable e-health related services and products. This should be done by various pilot project demonstrators to create realistic scenarios. Primarily this is done for the…
Research improves elite kayaking
Dennis Sturm of KTH in news article on improved elite kayaking: http://www.kth.se/aktuellt/snart-kan-tranaren-ersattas-av-mobilen-1.83650 http://www.flemingsberg.se/sv/Nyheter/Nyheter-och-press/Ny-teknik-for-att-hitta-OS-formen-/ Research paper related to this in Sport Science section of Design for Wellbeing site.
Sport Science | 2008-
An interesting application for wellbeing is Sport Science where a focus may be on how to improve performance in the elite field, and improve quality in practice for the everyday athlete. Keeping people healthy is…
NeedInn – Need Centered Product Innovation within E-health…
Needfinding process in NeedInn (swedish) PROJECT SUMMARY Needfinding and innovation are the keywords of NeedInn. The goal for NeedInn is to create a method, a working process, which contributes to a need centered product development…
Nosphere | 2007
The Nosphere (Nösphere was the original name) is a product that is patented together with Stanford University and that was developed within the project NeedInn - Need Centered Product Innovation within E-health, and in Stanford…
INTELiCare | 2003-2004
PROJECT BRIEF When: 2003-2004 (finalized) What: Intel's Proactive Health project is seeking creative technology designs and demonstration prototypes in two primary areas: social health monitoring and support (SHMS) and daily routine monitoring and management (DRMM).…
Rethinking blood-glucose monitoring | 2005-2006
PROJECT BRIEF When: 2005-2006 (finalized) What: Together with Abbott Laboratories (US), students from LTU and Stanford University, USA, collaborated in this global project to develop a new type of glucose monitoring system for children with…
About Design for Wellbeing
Design for Wellbeing redirects the focus of product development from technology-based development, via needs-based development, to participative product development and innovation Desired state of being = wellbeing In the spirit of other user-centered initiatives —…