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Tailor-Made Design Guidelines for Human Factors and Usability for Medical Device Application: A Proposed Methodology

Part of: Design for Healthcare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Kamya Nagarajan  and
Arlindo Silva

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With increasing level of advancement and complexity in medical devices, there is a need for methodology, tools and techniques in practice to integrate Human Factors and Usability (HF/U) elements in design due to its increasing diversity of users and rapidly changing interface types. This paper proposes a methodology to develop a tailor-made HF/U design guidelines for medical device development with various sources and to develop heuristics for evaluation and score the product usability throughout the development process.

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User centred designDesign methodologyEvaluationEarly design phases

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Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 995 - 1004
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