A Development project to determine and progress the 'state of the Art' of Design theory and Practice in healthcare

我们欢迎人权委员会将设计确定为战略重点。谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学艺术与设计研究中心拥有20多年的设计研究和实践传统。在过去5年中，这一专门知识已被用于发挥卫生和社会保健领域复杂的、迄今尚未开发的设计潜力。这项关键的工作集中在研究中心的两个具体合作上。首先是Lab4Living，这是健康和设计研究人员之间的合作伙伴关系，从业者和设计师之间的合作伙伴关系，最重要的是使用产品和服务的个人与这些产品和服务的设计师之间的合作伙伴关系（www.lab4living.org.uk）。其次，国家卫生研究院（NIHR）资助了以用户为中心的医疗保健设计（UCHD）。UCHD是另一个多学科项目，专门探索设计理论和实践在医疗保健中的应用（www.uchd.org.uk）。这些合作导致了2011年和2013年举行的国际设计健康会议（http://www.design4health.org.uk/）This会议和相关活动为将设计研究转化为医疗保健和相关业务提供了一个极好的讨论焦点。大学和第三部门围绕着一系列令人眼花缭乱的项目。围绕这一设计领域的关键挑战的对话已经在本次论坛上开始，但AHRC的资金将允许进行文献综述和一系列研讨会，以探讨上次会议结束时确定的关键主题。即：跨设计和健康项目的评估语言表明设计对医疗保健创新领域的独特贡献设计师可以拥有的参与医疗保健的模式范围拟议项目的第一阶段将委托进行全面的文献综述，以确定英国和国际上已经进行的健康设计活动的范围和数量。这将为第二阶段的工作提供可靠的证据基础。会议指导委员会已经有来自英国设计学术领域的优秀代表，他们与那些具有医疗保健和健康研究经验的人一起，将能够开始构建然后回答问题，并将答案建立在交付项目的实际经验中。项目的后一部分将把文献综述和研讨会的成果转化为引人入胜的数字传播形式。所有这些活动将在2015年设计健康会议上有一个自然的出口。

We welcome the AHRC's identification of Design as a strategic priority. The Art and Design research centre at Sheffield Hallam University has a rich tradition of design research and practice spanning over 20 years. Over the last 5 years this expertise has been brought to bear on the complex and hitherto untapped potential of design in Health and social care.This critical mass of work has been centred around two specific collaborations within the research centre. Firstly Lab4Living, which is a partnership between researchers in health and design, between practitioners and designers and, most importantly between individuals who use products and services and the designers of these (www.lab4living.org.uk). Secondly the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funded User-centred Healthcare Design (UCHD). UCHD is another multidisciplinary project specifically exploring the use of design theory and practice in healthcare (www.uchd.org.uk).These collaborations have resulted in the International Design4Health conference being held in 2011 and 2013 (http://www.design4health.org.uk/)This conference and associated activities have provided an excellent focus for the discussion around the translation of design research into healthcare and have linked business, university and third sectors around a bewildering array of projects. The conversations around the key challenges for this area of design have started in this forum, but the AHRC funding would allow a literature review and a series of seminars to explore the key themes identified at the close of the last conference, namely:Languages of evaluation across design and health projectsHow to articulate Design's unique contribution to the field of healthcare innovationThe range of modes of engagement with health care that designers can haveThe first stage of the proposed project would be to commission a comprehensive literature review to determine the range and amount of activity already underway in the UK and internationally in design for health. This would provide a sound evidence base for the second phase of the work.The conference steering committee already has excellent representation from across the UK design academic landscape, who alongside those with experience of Healthcare and Health research, would be able to start to frame and then answer the questions, and ground the answers in the practical experience of delivering projects.The latter part of the project will translate the outputs of the literature review and workshops into an engaging digital form of disseminationAll of these activities will have a natural outlet in the Design4Health conference 2015.