The Kiki
Design For Future Healthcare
The Part 1 Team:
Haili Wu
Megan Maxwell
Cammy Hogg
The Project Outline:
The project has two-part. Part one is group work with two other designers and experts from the Institute of Cancer Sciences at The University of Glasgow. We aim to speculate a future vision of cancer care in 2030.
Part two is my personal exploration based on the vision we built. I was looking at how would the concept of 'collective intelligence' applies to 'post-cancer' healthcare in the future.
Part 1
In part one, we try to identify possible future post-cancer treatment health care models. We speculated a future scenario that healthcare has become more digital and personal, and with artificial food technology, medicine has the potential to integrate into people’s everyday food.
Imagine the technological advancements that could allow for health monitoring and simple treatment to happen in the home. What is the experience living in such a world? What consequence can we see?
Part One Research & Design Process
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To communicate our vision of the future, we create a fictional brand Dinaci and a story based on its user.
Dinaci is a company that looks at biological and behavioural trends to build an image of the user's normality. Negative trends in this data point towards health problems; in the beyond cancer context, this is an image of risk of readmission. The data gathered acts as part of collective intelligence; informing the user's healthcare on a local scale; it informs global medical and cancer communities in a wider context.
Part One Outcome
Part Two
In part two, I worked individually, continued to speculate on how design can shape our society in the future through the relationships between people, products and place.
Working closely with cancer research experts, I notice remote healthcare might become a trend for post-cancer living in 2030. However, It largely depends on technology. So, bringing the new form of cancer care to people who have difficulty using tech becomes critical.
Some Practice
As a speculative design project, I decided to create an ‘extreme user’ persona with the experts I am working with. The extreme user persona is an unusual design approach because it only covers some extreme minority users. However, in the speculative design project related to health care, it is an excellent way to push our speculation of the future world and identify the most challenging user scenario we might face. I also involved role-playing in my future product development process. I invited people to act as potential users, and I try to act as the product I am developing. The method allows me to look at the interaction between people and the product critically, helps me to achieve a thoughtful outcome.
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