Design Collaboration in Medical Research: Designing Doctor-patient Interaction
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- 1. University of Cincinnati
- 2. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Description
With the expansion of specialization has come a contraction of innovation needed to meet systemic problems. To rectify this, calls are coming for greater levels of collaboration across disciplines from research funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). This paper describes the collaboration of graduate design students at the University of Cincinnati (UC) with researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) to improve doctor-parent interaction surrounding Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The combined CCHMC/UC team collaboratively designed communication materials to ensure 1) information provision on all treatment options and 2) elicitation of parent preferences among the treatment modalities. Preliminary testing of the materials has been encouraging. This paper reports on the collaborative design process of those materials.
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