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Imbued Medical Device Design

Arredondo, Cecilia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367926108

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2013, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy associated with art and beauty (Zhang, 2009). Aesthetic design is directly correlated with imbued design. Imbued design means to evoke a users feeling or emotion through an object or service. Its process uses analogy to understand functionality and metaphor to translate into aesthetics. Historically, medical device design has been based solely on functionality. Ruled by the principle "form follows function" aesthetics are left to be applied at the end of the medical device development process. In design, the lack of aesthetics is defined as a lack of communication. Physicians require tools and information that simplify their everyday complex tasks. In order to test this theory, a simple medical device was developed for the purpose of visualizing and removing air bubbles from the arterial lines used in Interventional radiology procedures. This device minimizes time and maximizes accuracy of the task. Three functional prototypes were designed to compare the differences between the perceived conservative, moderately conservative and imbued forms as determined by the users by assessing 2-dimensional representations. For assessing the user perception of form and usability, fifteen participants from interventional radiology, were asked to take part of the study. The usability performance was assessed based on FDA Draft Human Factors Guidance. The emotional impressions were analyzed using Kansei Engineering Tools which to addressed the semantic differential. Semantic Differential measures people's reactions to stimulus words and concepts in terms of ratings on bipolar scales defined with contrasting adjectives. All sessions were recorded to compared to self-responses in order to assess agreement with participants non-verbals reactions during the interaction. The results of this study conclude that the methodology used to asses imbued design is effective, users' preferences change based on the design communication (2D vs 3D), and an ergonomic fit during usability assessment drives overall preference.
Dale Murray, M.A. (Committee Chair)
Andrew J. Ringer, M.I.D. (Committee Member)
Mary Privitera, M I.D. (Committee Member)
37 p.
Design
Medical Device Design; Emotional Design; Imbued Design; Usability;

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  • Arredondo, C. (2013). Imbued Medical Device Design [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367926108

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Arredondo, Cecilia. Imbued Medical Device Design. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367926108.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Arredondo, Cecilia. "Imbued Medical Device Design." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367926108

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