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April 01 2015
Script of Healthcare Technology: Do Designs of Robotic Beds Exclude or Include Users?
Søsser Brodersen,
Søsser Brodersen
Søsser Brodersen is assistant professor at Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. She has a Master degree and PhD in Engineering. Her research focus is on the socio-material approach to design and innovation. Her main research areas are user-participation, participatory design and user-driven innovation with special focus on healthcare technologies, marginalized people and multicultural design challenges.
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Meiken Hansen,
Meiken Hansen
Meiken Hansen has a Master of Science Engineering in the field Design and Innovation. Her master thesis was focused on user oriented product development. She is currently a PhD student, studying smart-grid innovation, intelligent homes and consumer practices.
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Hanne Lindegaard
Hanne Lindegaard
Hanne Lindegaard is an Ethnologist with a PhD in Engineering. She is associate professor in User Oriented Design at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. Her main focus is on combining ethnographic field study methodology with engineering design approaches. Her research areas are a sociotechnical approach to design and innovation, User Oriented Design, Field observations, Co-creation, healthcare technology and intercultural design challenges.
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Søsser Brodersen
Søsser Brodersen is assistant professor at Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. She has a Master degree and PhD in Engineering. Her research focus is on the socio-material approach to design and innovation. Her main research areas are user-participation, participatory design and user-driven innovation with special focus on healthcare technologies, marginalized people and multicultural design challenges.
Meiken Hansen
Meiken Hansen has a Master of Science Engineering in the field Design and Innovation. Her master thesis was focused on user oriented product development. She is currently a PhD student, studying smart-grid innovation, intelligent homes and consumer practices.
Hanne Lindegaard
Hanne Lindegaard is an Ethnologist with a PhD in Engineering. She is associate professor in User Oriented Design at the Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen. Her main focus is on combining ethnographic field study methodology with engineering design approaches. Her research areas are a sociotechnical approach to design and innovation, User Oriented Design, Field observations, Co-creation, healthcare technology and intercultural design challenges.
Online Issn: 1531-4790
Print Issn: 0747-9360
© 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015
Design Issues (2015) 31 (2): 16–28.
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Søsser Brodersen, Meiken Hansen, Hanne Lindegaard; Script of Healthcare Technology: Do Designs of Robotic Beds Exclude or Include Users?. Design Issues 2015; 31 (2): 16–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00319
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