Designing Usability into Medical Products

Focusing upon a user-centered approach to medical technology design, this text explores the essential processes and techniques required in the production of safe, effective, usable, and appealing medical systems and products.

"This book should be on the shelf of anyone involved in the development of medical products. Today devices are getting more and more complex while caregivers as a whole are much less experienced. User centered interface design has to make up the difference and this book gives you a plan." Nicholas Barker, Vice President - Design, Datascope Corp

Auteur
Michael E. Wiklund, Stephen B. Wilcox

Texte du rabat

Advocating a user-centered approach to medical technology design, this book covers the essential processes and specific techniques necessary to produce safe, effective, usable, and appealing medical systems and products. Written by experts on user-centered research, design, and evaluation, the book provides a range of alternative approaches. Wiklund and Wilcox explore how to make medical devices safe and effective by involving users in the design process. They discuss specific design and evaluation methods and tools, present case studies of user-friendly medical technologies and corporate human factors programs, and supply related resources for medical design professionals.

Contenu
General Principles and Processes. Design Methods and Guidance. Corporate Human Factors Programs. Product Design Case Studies.