We are happy to announce that our Springer book Revolutions in Product Design for Healthcare – Advances in Product Design and Design Methods for Healthcare has been published.
- Karupppasamy Subburaj, Kamalpreet Sandhu, Sasa Cukovic: “Revolutions in Product Design for Healthcare – Advances in Product Design and Design Methods for Healthcare“, Springer Singapore, Edited book submitted to Springer on 09/11/2021, published on 01/03/2022, pp. 227, ISBN: 978-981-16-9455-4, Book series: Design Science and Innovation, Series Editor Amaresh Chakrabarti.
More info about book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-9455-4
Contact: sasa.cukovic@hest.ethz.ch
From book preface:
“The general design methods, processes, and evaluation strategies face challenges when applied to solve a healthcare design problem due to the rigid nature of regulatory compliance and the cost of taking a design to the market. The pathway to the market from the stage of identifying a need is riddled with death valleys, including but not limited to material choice, manufacturing and testing protocol and standards, clinical trials, and regulatory compliance. Recognizing those valleys in the early stage of the design process would allow the designer to be vigilant of every decision made and its impact down the line. The book entitled Advances in Product Design for Healthcare covers the best practices, advanced designmethods to capture, document, and validate clinical challenges at the early stage of the design process, and mitigating design strategies to address those challenges without compromising the cost, effort, safety, and quality of the device. The editorial team compiled a comprehensive collection of technical notes, research articles, design frameworks, case studies, stateof-the-art literature reviews, and impact studies covering the topics mentioned above to offer a coherent resource for the readers. In addition, we have structured the book to provide foundations and frameworks first, then application of science, technology, and innovations in healthcare product design. Designers, clinicians, ergonomists, ancillary healthcare professionals, manufacturing enterprises, and young research scholars will benefit from this book and understand the real potential of healthcare product design innovations.”
Editors