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Barbara Cottrell Trippeer Creative Toolkits for Developing Biomedical Technology for Children with Chronic Illness M.F.A. 2015 in Applied Design Research University of North Texas, Toulouse Graduate School College of Visual Art + Design (CVAD) art.unt.edu/designresearchcenter
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Barbara Cottrell Trippeer
Creative Toolkits
for Developing Biomedical Technology for Children with Chronic Illness
M.F.A. 2015 in Applied Design ResearchUniversity of North Texas, Toulouse Graduate SchoolCollege of Visual Art + Design (CVAD)art.unt.edu/designresearchcenter
–Herbert Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, 1996
“Design is devising a course of action aimed at changing an existing situation into a
preferred one.”
Background and Inspiration
Medical Smart Garment Systems: Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour
Empowerment through Understanding
Monitoring fluctuations in quality of health during cycles of illness or throughout daily activities
–Dana Tapak, Design Considerations, University of Manitoba, 2012
“Don’t speak about us without us.”
Design Advocacy: Participatory Design
Form & Function
Digital Natives:
❖ What do they want?
❖ How do they want it?
Barriers to traditional research methods
when working with children
❖ Power relationships
❖ Subordination
❖ Stigmatization
Interview Toolkit
Theoretical Foundations
Grounded Theory Approach
“Emic”perspective
Medical Anthropological Foundation
Meaning Centered Approach• Patient Perceptions• Self Knowledge• Awareness of Abilities• Explanatory Models
Dr. Christine Kiefer Dr. Arthur Kleinman(Doing Health Anthropology: 2007)
Research Design Methodologies
Rapid Ethnographic Assessment
Open Ended, In-Depth Interviewing
Arts Based Interview Methods
Arts Based Interview Methods
“Drawing things together”
Bruno Latour,Visualization &
cognition, thinking with
eyes and hands, 2011
Interview Toolkit
“Helping language”
Isotype
• Otto Neurath (1931)
Context Sticker Menu as ISOTYPE Styled Communication System
Iconic Metaphors
• Meredith Davis (2011)• Don Norman(2007)• Rawley Silver (2001)• Martin Krampen (1999)
Context Sticker Menu
Rawley Silver (2001) and Martin Krampen (1991) “Stimulus Drawings”
Next Steps: Participatory Design
Conclusions• Mitigate Stigmas• Empowerment • Increased Knowledge• Increased
Understanding
Many thanks to:Cooks Children’s Hospital Child Life Division
University of North Texas & Toulouse Graduate SchoolDesign Research Center
Michael GibsonKeith Owens
