Enabling adolescents to participate in the design and improvement of medical devices
The study investigates how adolescents can successfully be accessed and involved in the design and development of medical devices. A number of workshops were conducted within secondary schools to elicit information from healthy, na(i)ve adolescents regarding their perspectives about the design of existing medical devices and the age at which children begin to take control of their own medical decision making. To elicit this information from the teenagers in a familiar environment workshop sessions were designed around their curriculum to enable the data collection activity to be carried out in schools. The workshops were designed in collaboration with teachers and training professionals to ensure that the study met the needs of the teenage participants. The workshop was repeated a number of times and refined, resulting in a successful method that engaged a young audience and elicited valuable qualitative data on medical device requirements whilst also fitting in with the constraints of classroom timetabling. Involving minors of any age in research has many barriers; however this study demonstrates that there are ways of successfully involving adolescents in research and development processes. The paper describes this new workshop method and how it has enabled teenagers to be accessed successfully for participation in research.
Alexandra R. Lang Jennifer L. Martin Sarah Sharples John A. Crowe
Human Factors Research Group Human Factors Research Group Electrical Systems and Applied Optics Research Division Human Factors Research Group Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, University Park,
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-10
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）