Xassess: crossdisciplinary framework in user-centred design of assistive products

Blanco, Teresa; Vázquez, Alfredo Berbegal; Blasco, Rubén; Casas, Roberto

doi:10.1080/09544828.2016.1200717

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“…The interpretivism paradigm and the qualitative methods are naturally closer than quantitative methods to design practice [RW.ERROR—Unable to find reference:453]. According to Blanco et al [40], not considering the qualitative perspective of end users could lead to suboptimal solutions in product and service designs. In our case, the research question of this study is concerned with providing an understanding of how to integrate MoCap gait analysis technology into the rehabilitation field according to the end user’s knowledge, experience, and expectations.…”

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Integrating a gait analysis test in hospital rehabilitation: A service design approach

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BackgroundGait analysis with motion capture (MoCap) during rehabilitation can provide objective information to facilitate treatment decision making. However, designing a test to be integrated into healthcare services requires considering multiple design factors. The difficulty of integrating a ‘micro-service’ (gait test) within a ‘macro-service’ (healthcare service) has received little attention in the gait analysis literature. It is a challenge that goes beyond the gait analysis case study because service design methods commonly focus on the entire service design (macro-level).ObjectiveThis study aims to extract design considerations and generate guidelines to integrate MoCap technology for gait analysis in the hospital rehabilitation setting. Specifically, the aim is to design a gait test to assess the response of the applied treatments through pre- and post-measurement sessions.MethodsWe focused on patients with spasticity who received botulinum toxin treatment. A qualitative research design was used to investigate the integration of a gait analysis system based on inertial measurement units in a rehabilitation service at a reference hospital. The methodological approach was based on contrasted methodologies from the service design field, which materialise through observation techniques (during system use), semi-structured interviews, and workshops with healthcare professionals (13 patients, 10 ‘proxies’, and 6 doctors).ResultsThe analysis resulted in six themes: (1) patients’ understanding, (2) guiding the gait tests, (3) which professionals guide the gait tests, (4) gait test reports, (5) requesting gait tests (doctors and test guide communication), and the (6) conceptual design of the service with the gait test.ConclusionsThe extracted design considerations and guidelines increase the applicability and usefulness of the gait analysis technology, improving the link between technologists and healthcare professionals. The proposed methodological approach can also be useful for service design teams that deal with the integration of one service into another.

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“…The phases within the methodological sequence were based on the Xassess evaluation methodology by Blanco et al [40]. Because the starting point was an existing product (a gait analysis system), we inevitably faced the evaluation of the system.…”

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“…La evaluación de los resultados obtenidos se lleva a cabo mediante una estrategia metodológica basada en Xassess (Blanco, Berbegal, Blasco, & Casas, 2016), adaptada en este caso, a la idiosincrasia del escenario de educación, y enfocada a la evaluación colaborativa entre diferentes especialidades. Una descripción pormenorizada de cómo evaluar una herramienta de este tipo se puede encontrar en Calavia, Blanco & Casas (2019a).…”

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Recursos basados en el diseño para fomentar la creatividad en el aula

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Aprendizaje, Innovación Y Cooperación Como Impulsores Del Cambio Metodológico

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Resumen-En los últimos años se ha incrementado el interés en formar a los alumnos en competencias transversales como la creatividad. Sin embargo, dicho enfoque no siempre se traduce a nivel práctico; porqué las escuelas no producen personas más creativas es una pregunta que actualmente no tiene respuesta. Un posible foco de actuación es el desarrollo de nuevos recursos que conecten a docentes y alumnos dentro del entorno educativo. En este artículo se presenta una experiencia de aprendizaje en el ámbito de secundaria a partir de una nueva metodología basada en el pensamiento de diseño, y destinada a contribuir en la formación de individuos más creativos. Se concluye que la metodología desarrollada se integra positivamente en el currículo, y es reconocida de gran ayuda para fomentar la creatividad en las escuelas. Asimismo, se evidencia la oportunidad que tiene el campo de la ingeniería de diseño en este y en otros posibles entornos educativos.

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“…In the early design iterations, these lines can be used to define some needs and specifications, based on the work already done; thus, a relational needs methodology can be followed. This tool is applied in cases like ours, where it is intended to design solutions that involve relationships between several users to detect those needs that each specific user has with respect to the others [ 78 ]. Here, it can be proposed to apply in the rest of the items, contemplating the human-machine and machine-machine relations.…”

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Octopus: A Design Methodology for Motion Capture Wearables

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Human motion capture (MoCap) is widely recognised for its usefulness and application in different fields, such as health, sports, and leisure; therefore, its inclusion in current wearables (MoCap-wearables) is increasing, and it may be very useful in a context of intelligent objects interconnected with each other and to the cloud in the Internet of Things (IoT). However, capturing human movement adequately requires addressing difficult-to-satisfy requirements, which means that the applications that are possible with this technology are held back by a series of accessibility barriers, some technological and some regarding usability. To overcome these barriers and generate products with greater wearability that are more efficient and accessible, factors are compiled through a review of publications and market research. The result of this analysis is a design methodology called Octopus, which ranks these factors and schematises them. Octopus provides a tool that can help define design requirements for multidisciplinary teams, generating a common framework and offering a new method of communication between them.

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Xassess: crossdisciplinary framework in user-centred design of assistive products

Cited by 31 publications

References 46 publications

Integrating a gait analysis test in hospital rehabilitation: A service design approach

Integrating a gait analysis test in hospital rehabilitation: A service design approach

Recursos basados en el diseño para fomentar la creatividad en el aula

Octopus: A Design Methodology for Motion Capture Wearables

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