A Living-Lab System for Assisting the Design and Usability Testing of Medical Devices and Equipment

Due to global population ageing, there are great demands on reliable and useful medical devices and equipment. From the previous clinical cases, it shows that inefficiency of health care provided by medical service, and damages by medical errors lead to inevitable social problems. Therefore, this study aims to develop a living-lab system, construct a living-lab environment and propose a novel medical device design and development model to assist design team to effectively develop medical devices for the future demands, medical quality, and medical errors improvement. This proposal achieves the goals in three-year steps. First, we use modified waterfall model to develop the living-lab system and environment, and apply usability, UTAUT, and FMEA for system testing. Second, for investigating the usefulness of the system, we assemble users with different background in Taiwan to develop and design marketing and developing medical devices by the system. The final aim is to upgrade the module of design and development of the system and guide the design team to design medical devices with the novel medical device design and development model. Meanwhile, for investigating the discrepancy of developing medical devices between Taiwan and United Kingdom, this study applies the system to evaluate and test the marketing and developing medical devices in UK. The valuable results will help improve medical errors by perception difference, ameliorate effectiveness of medical devices, and provide efficient medical care for alleviate medical wastes and social burdens.

Project ID:PE10207-0473
External Project ID:NSC102-2410-H182-017