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Rahul Sen | Interaction Design 1 | Umeå Designhögskolan


Life and Death

Foreword

Life and DeathHeaven and HellLight and DarknessSpring and AutumnJoy and Sorrow.

Different sides of the same coin

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Perceiving Today

The Patient The patient is a Person at the mercy of Machines and DoctorsStanding at the threshold Of Life and Death.

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A Patient suffering at the Hospital. Is this an environment of RECOVERY?(From a mood sketches made by the author at the Umeå University Hospital)


Perceiving Today

Loved onesBrought together In their concern for the individual,They revive memories of the past.It is a time for prayer and optimism,A time to hope for the future,

A time to appreciate Life much more.

The Relatives

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Perceiving Today

The Hospital ICU An Intense Depressing Space,Where a Person’s Life often is placed,In the Hands of the Machine,The Doctor,And the Divine.

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Perceiving Today

The Ventilator The Ventilator provides oxygen to a Person,It Breathes,It gives Life.It is a source of Hope,Of Happiness,Of Vitality.

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The current perception of a Mechanical Ventilator in the minds of people who are not from the medical profession.

(sketched by the author at the Umeå University Hospital)

The Perception Card Game - A soft questionnaire developed by the author to investigate the

subconscious perceptions in the minds of people who worked at Hospitals - of Health, Ventilators,

Nurses, Doctors etc.)


Perceiving Today

The Nurse A Nurse or Doctor,Operating the VentilatorNurtures the person at this threshold with the help of this Interface.

Nourishes,Cares,Revives.

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The Experiment at the Hospital - Images of Nurses and Doctors participating

in a workshop conducted at the Umeå University Hospital to investigate the hidden

aspirations and perception in the minds of the Medical staff who worked at the Hosptial.


Machine is the Message

A Ventilator is a Machine that gives a Hu-man Being the most important energy of Life - Breath.

It should give a message of Hope.It should tell you to “Get Well Soon”.

It should Live and Die with You.

These are objects of Love and good wishes, which one would find at a hospital ICU.

They are messages from Loved Ones.

They are the only present human connection between patient and relative.

INTENTObject of Emotion

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A Change in Mood

What could be...What is...

INTENT

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Redefining Roles

Primary concerns

1. To re-think the Ventilator Interface

2. Create an experience that pays tribute to the beauty of Life and Growth, rather than digits and graphs.

3. Create a Ventilator Interface that is ‘alive’ and responding to Patients and Relatives alike

4. To design an interaction that underlines the spirit of “Get Well Soon”, rather than sickness and loss.

INTENT

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A New Genre of Hospitals - Places of OptimismThe collage was prepared to demonstrate the existing emotional language in a hospital and how it could be affected to become something more positive.


“Dissecting” the Ventilator

INPUT DEVICE

OUTPUT AMBIENCE

ALARM + TECHNICAL OUTPUT

An Object that expresses LifeAn Experience that Lives and DiesA Message of “Get Well Soon”

An Experience of Beauty and HopeAn Expression of GrowthAn indirect display of the Patient’s breathingAn interactive display of Relatives

An inobstrusive ‘feel good’ mobile deviceWorn on the Nurse’s bodyIndicates alarmsDisplays tangible data output for work

STRATEGY

“All-in-One”

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Introducing the “Bloom Concept”

Output(ambience)

BREATH

Input DeviceBLOOM

SMILEAlarm + Technical Output

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Input DeviceBLOOM

Inspiration

Raindrops keep falling

Opening of the BLOOM Ventilator

Startup mode

Like a drop of water Giving Life to a Flower‘Bloom’ opens and comes aliveWhen it is in use.

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Input DeviceBLOOM

Input Device

Secondary settings

Direct access petals

Digital display /Accept Button

Touch dial

Digital graphs

Schematic

Rate controlScreen shot 13


BREATH (Ambient Output)

Inhalation 1

Exhalation 1

Inhalation 2

Exhalation 2

Sub- settings

Sub- settings in effect

After an hour of breathing Size = Amplitude of setting Speed = Frequency of breath A Breath of Life !

Perspective sketch of ICU

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When a Relative Enters the Room...

RFID tags on relative’s badges enable system to detect their presence - Butterflies appear on the display surface over flowers.

inspiration

Relative’s identification tag

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SMILE (Alarm and Output Device)

Nurse’s badge

ALARM !

The badge is connected by wireless to the Ventilator Mainframe and sends off an alarm by glowing or vibrating.

Technical Output Device

The badge opens up into a portable mini-screen for the display of tangible output data which is relevant for the Medical professional only.

The Nurse uses this device to read data and the uses the Bloom to change settings.

The Relative and the Patient are spared the emotional trauma of blinking screens and sharp sounds.

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DEATH (What happens when a patient dies?)

The Bloom Interface gradually stops glowing With every fading breath.Its petals gradually wilt inward.At the EndIt goes back to where it started. A Drop. A Seed.

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Let a thousand flowers

CONCLUSION

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Rahul Sen | Interaction Design 1 | Umeå Designhögskolan 19

Rohini “Bee” and my Family for your inspiration, unwavering love and support, at an extremely difficult time.

Annika - This project would not have blossomed without your help and your positivity.

Professors Niklas Andersson, Johann Bergvall, Nils-Erik Gustafsson, Anne-lise Muller and Kent Lindbergh for the great discussions.

The Staff and friends working at the Norrlands Hospital at Umeå, Sweden.

Karin Blomqvist for her positivity and sustained interest in our ideas.

My Classmates Vittorio, Youle, Stina, Haishu, Sotiris, Paula and Mike and all my friends at the UID for all the support.

Thanks with all my heart. I would not have come this far without you.

In memory of Mrs. Sita Mukherji and

Georges Lindenmeyer.

Two dear friends lost recently.

This attempt it dedicated to them and their families in Calcutta, India.

THANK YOU !

A PERSONAL MESSAGE

A Project by Rahul SenMA Interaction Design (1st year, 1st semester)Institute of Design (Designhögskolan),Umea University

In collaboration with Maquet Critical Care Systems,Gettinge AB, Solna, Sweden

Internal project guide – Niklas AnderssonTitle: Assistant Programme Leader, Interaction Design Program

Client (Maquet Critical Care) representative – Karin Blomquist

Project guide and listener – Johan Bergvall Title: Interaction Designer & Principal, HumID

Guides and listeners from outside – Annelise Muller (Interaction Designer, MTI-NUS), Kent Lindbergh (MCC & UID)

BLOOM

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