Abstract
Dignity is a key value within healthcare. Technology is also recognized as being a fundamental part of healthcare delivery, but also a potential cause of dehumanization of the patient. Therefore, understanding how medical devices can be designed to help deliver dignity is important. This paper explores the role of empathy tools as a way of engendering empathy in engineers and designers to enable them to design for dignity. A framework is proposed that makes the link between empathy tools and outcomes of feelings of dignity. It represents a broad systems view that provides a structure for reviewing the evidence for the efficacy of empathy tools and also how dignity can be systematically understood for particular medical devices.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 388-394 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 3 Oct 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Design
- Dignity
- Empathy
- Engineering
- Tools