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Female User Experience in Industrial Design– Redesigning Medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Suits

Wang, Yukun
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin166081930348398

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2022, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Medical personal protective equipment (PPE) garment designs usually use male data. However, the primary users of PPE garments are women. This research aims to take a user-centered design approach for redesigning PPE suites based on data of female healthcare professionals and addressing their unique needs in the design process. The main methods used in this study include Empathic Experience: Role-play Ideation, Storyboard Research Design Methodology, Experiments on design and defect testing of protective clothing, Ethnographic Interviews, Ethnographic Observations, stakeholder Value Web, and Prototyping and prototype testing. This study found that the improved design of the medical PPE garment will 1) significantly improve the user experience of female healthcare workers, 2) address the issue of medical PPE garments not conforming to Chinese female anthropometric data, 3) address the exposure of healthcare workers to viral environments and elevated risk of infection due to back fabric displacement, and 4) address the problem of hand skin damage due to prolonged wearing of medical rubber gloves. For future research, this study will provide reference and support for developing PPE garments focusing on female users’ needs.
Craig Vogel, M.I.D. (Committee Member)
Brigid O'Kane, MFA (Committee Member)
Zachary Hoh (Committee Member)
50 p.
Design
personal protective equipment clothing; medical product design; COVID-19 pandemic; female healthcare workers; User Experience Design; PPE clothing

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  • Wang, Y. (2022). Female User Experience in Industrial Design– Redesigning Medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Suits [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin166081930348398

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wang, Yukun. Female User Experience in Industrial Design– Redesigning Medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Suits. 2022. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin166081930348398.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wang, Yukun. "Female User Experience in Industrial Design– Redesigning Medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Suits." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin166081930348398

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