Journal
DESIGN STUDIES
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2020.100986
Keywords
design practice; ethics; innovation; care
Funding
- Fonds de Recherche du Quebec e Sante
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [FDN-143294]
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This study reveals how health innovation designers focus on needs, mobilize skills, engage in "care-making" practices, and respond to caregivers and care-receivers when designing new health technologies. The research discusses the role of health innovation designers as "care makers" in the care relationship, as well as the tension between their ways of caring and conflicting responsibilities.
This article explores how health innovation designers articulate care and responsibility when designing new health technologies. Towards this end, we draw on Tronto's ethic of care framework and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) scholarship to analyse interviews with Canadian health innovators (n = 31). Our findings clarify how respondents: 1) direct their attention to needs and ways to improve care; 2) mobilise their skill set to take care of problems; 3) engage in what we call 'care-making' practices by prioritising key material qualities; and 4) operationalise responsiveness to caregivers and care-receivers through user-centred design. We discuss the inclusion of health innovation designers within the care relationship as 'care makers' as well as the tensions underlying their ways of caring and their conflicting responsibilities. (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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