Ola Shujoy,
I can share some of our experiences here in Metro Vancouver, BC.
Canada's minister of innovation contacted universities asking for assistance. The main problem I have found so far is lack of proper communication channels and information about what is needed, how much and where, as well as procedures to ensure safety and compliance with regulation.
What is being beautiful is individuals reaching out to personal contacts in the healthcare sector (many of us has a nurse or doctor friend), there has been a great amount of volunteers and offerings to help. After this our local hospital shared the contact of one person to start communicating and establishing collaborations.
So far it is pretty much growing organically, but things are getting organised over here. I have not found one trustworthy single source of information.
There is a lot of information around, many coming from well-intended makers without much understanding of the design process, safety or human factors.
Me personally I will start by print and testing tomorrow (March 26th) 4 different face shields designs that will present to our local hospital.
I'll be happy to share the process and results if anybody is interested.
Best regards,
Victor G. Martinez Ph.D
Faculty & Researcher
Wilson School of Design
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)
t. 604.599.2594
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www.kpu.ca/design
KPU operates on the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt and Kwikwetlem peoples. I am honored and grateful to live and work on their lands.
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Dear Peter Dalsgaard
Dear colleagues
Peter, Thanks for sharing your Gdrive document compiling brainstorming
data.
I am writing to contribute to the immediate crisis.
I read reports of efforts in Italy on venturi valve designs and masks for
ventilators adapted from Decatholon scuba equipment.
I am particularly interested to learn if any list members are working with
healthcare authorities on personal protective equipment (PPE) design?
Your answers to below questions can be quite helpful to our situation in
University of Madeira, as we are on EU insular periphery with limited
resources:
1> How can designers address product safety protocols / design validation /
and regulatory matters when assisting to supply backlogged components to
local hospitals? (Are authorities providing any indications?)
2> Did local healthcare authorities reach out to you / or did you approach
them? (Because in some cases authorities being non-designers maybe aren't
aware designers can assist, even when the outbreak situation is quite dire)
3> Is there any online resource being compiled on suitable / successful
designs / fabrication procedures for PPE like face masks / face shields /
ventilator components?
As the Covid-19 caseload escalates on Madeira Island, we are trying to
assemble an effort to support our local healthcare front line but we are
kind of learning healthcare design on the fly.
If any of you have ongoing efforts in protective mask designs / 3d models /
3d printing best practices I would like to discuss and learn!
https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/cecimo-calls-upon-additive-manufacturing-companies-to-help-hospitals-in-need/
Goodnight from Portugal and Good health to All.
*Com os Melhores Cumprimentos,*
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*With Best Regards,*
Shujoy Chakraborty (Ph.D)
Assistant Professor
Product Design
University of Madeira (UMa)
*www.uma.pt <http://www.uma.pt>*
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Research Group Coordinator
Future Industrial Kitchen (FIK)
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI)
*www.m-iti.org <http://www.m-iti.org>*
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 11:07, Peter Dalsgaard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear colleagues, I hope you and your loved ones are safe.
>
> Based on discussions here at Aarhus University we have created a shared
> document to aggregate examples of what we as researchers and experts in HCI
> and Interaction Design can do to contribute in the immediate COVID-19
> crisis and in the phases that follow. We hope that such a document can be
> of value in several ways.
>
> 1) Contributing in the immediate crisis: Makers 3D printing face shields
> for healthcare workers and components for ventilators that are out of
> stock, and peers in infovis creating interactive visualisations and
> explorable explanations to help people understand the spread of virus and
> the measures to contain and combat it, etc.
>
> 2) Contributing to what comes after the immediate crisis: CSCW experts
> developing and improving systems to work remotely, Ubicomp and
> Participatory Design colleagues collaborating to establish culturally
> appropriate systems and measures for contact tracing, etc.
>
> 3)Learning from the crisis: Carrying out studies and experiments that
> enable us to learn from this tragic and unique situation such as
> understanding how different means and infrastructures of communication
> influences individual and collective behaviour, how scientists use shared
> digital resources to study the virus and develop therapies, etc.
>
> 4) A resource for teaching: Many courses are now carried out under very
> different circumstances than planned, and the document may provide a
> resource for teachers and students to work on projects pertaining to the
> crisis.
>
> The document is very much a work in progress, so we invite you to
> contribute, revise, comment, and add further resources.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/19_n2yjBZeAw8wIbi-aKhzs65cVKrWJEKx_KNfG4TOLM/edit?usp=sharing
>
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