Healthcare is an industry in which fail safes, procedures and precision are all equally essential; the delivery of healthcare requires a high degree of attention to care and safety. However, as with all human endeavours, mistakes can be made; in the field of healthcare, mistakes can prove to be...
In September 2012, Emily Carr collaborated with Vancouver Coastal Health in investigating the problem space of caregiving for resident patients. Residential Care Assistants are responsible for patient care; bathing, toileting and other personal hygiene tasks, as well as moving patients. Ceiling...
In partnership with Providence Health Care, the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr started a project to create a new, robotic ambulatory cart to transfer supplies within the hospital. After conducting extensive user research at St. Paul’s Hospital, design students Darryl Agawin and Jeremy Calhoun...
In partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health, Emily Carr’s Health Design Lab launched the Hand Hygiene project. This collaboration aimed to stimulate a behavior change in the usage of hand-sanitizer dispensers and embed them as an integral part of daily life in the hospital. Using human-centred...
The social model of disability challenges the idea that it is a medical problem requiring “treatment”, and asserts that it is a problem of overcoming barriers to ordinary life. Design seeks to serve this by providing solutions that are rooted in deep contextual understanding and integrate...
