Design Living-Lab (DHDLivingLab)

The DHD Living Lab (Digital Health Design Living Lab) creates an interdisciplinary framework that acts as a catalyst for innovative research and development projects led by both experienced and early-career researchers at the intersection of digitalisation, health, ethics and design.

Key data

Description

Objectives / Research Questions

The aim is to build a bridge to real-world practice by directly involving relevant partners from the healthcare sector, as well as patients and their relatives; to promote the development of forward-looking profiles of excellence through cross-disciplinary and cross-stakeholder dialogue; and to generate user-oriented outputs that deliver social value. The focus is on a citizen-oriented, participatory approach that can promote patient-centred, local care and community health.

Method

The DHD Living Lab brings together universities and clinical practice with patients and their relatives, offering an interdisciplinary, design-centred, participatory, integrative and practice-oriented structure that acts as an incubator for innovative tools, approaches and profiles contributing to the design of future, citizen-centred healthcare.

Human-Centred Health & Design Think Methods

Participatory Method DIPEx as a methodological approach.

Benefits / Results

Through collaboration with university hospitals, patient organisations and institutions such as the Participatory Science Academy (UZH/ETH), the DHD Living Lab aims to actively involve patients, their relatives and the public in researching needs and preferences, as well as in designing innovative solutions. Participation can help to increase the public’s trust, awareness and knowledge regarding health literacy and digitalisation. Overall, this contributes to prevention and sustainable health promotion.

In addition to the project team listed below, Alessia Ballerini, an external collaborator at ZHAW, contributed to the project.