Designing for innovation and safety: How can medical device designers do both?

本研究关注的是医疗器械设计人员如何协商开发安全和创新产品的双重要求。重点是设计师的管理，特别是设计师如何在日常工作中使用他们的工作特征（例如，他们做出设计决策的自主程度）。该研究建议评估一些可能影响设计师表现的变量，包括他们的工作环境的各个方面，例如他们的工作特征和团队背景，他们的个性方面，以及更动态的个人影响，如创新水平，在对工作特征的稳定方面和设计师工作的团队环境进行评估后，将对20个设计团队中的至少150名设计师进行为期两个工作周的跟踪，每天四次，每两小时评估一次动态现象。研究结果将增加关于如何配置工作以促进安全和创新的知识，以及在设计师工作量和工作模式管理领域产生实际影响。

This research is concerned with how medical device designers can negotiate the twin requirements of developing both safe and innovative products. The focus is on the management of designers, and particularly how designers use the characteristics of their jobs (for example, their level of autonomy to make design decisions) in their day-to-day work. The research proposes to assess a number of variables which could influence the designers' perfomance, including facets of their working environment, for example their job characeristics and team context, aspects of their personality, and more dynamic personal influences such as levels of innovation, levels of safety-related cognitive error and important dynamic phenomena related to their job characteristicsAfter assessment of stable aspects of job characteristics and team contexts within which the designers work, at least 150 designers in 20 design teams will be tracked over the course of two working weeks, assessing the dynamic phenomena four times per day, every two hours. The results of the research will increase knowledge concerning how jobs can be configured in order to promote both safety and innovation, as well as having a practical impact in the area of the management of designers workload and working patterns.