LCare Sensor Chair by Fiorella Xiao and Sean Guo |
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| DESIGN NAME: LCare PRIMARY FUNCTION: Sensor Chair INSPIRATION: Communication in cancer care can be critical in a positive clinical experience. During the consultation in the test room, the patients sometimes refuse to show that they need more emotional support due to shy, nervous, fearful, etc. Since body language can be more truthful than verbal emotion expression in this situation, a chair that can translate the emotional needs of patients can help the doctor be more sensitive and supportive in cancer care UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: LCare is an emotion-focus supportive sensor chair for the healthcare facilities, especially to help the communication between the doctors and the cancer patients by detecting the hidden emotion of the patients with pressure sensors and show warning signal to the doctors and change the environment lighting. The doctor may change the communication strategy based on corresponding color change on the armrests(red for shock, green for calm, blue for fear) and the environment lighting will change to soft purple when detected emotion of fear and can calm patient's nerve OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: When the cancer patients start to sitting on the seat, the sensors start to work and transfer the pressure signals and accelerometer signals to the processor. Then the processor will analyze the synthesis of sitting posture, normalizes the data, and finally fuse and classify the feature. In this way, the chair can translate the signal into emotion and use some corresponding colors to warn the doctors( red for shock, blue for fear, green for calm). The doctor may change their communication strategy based on the emotion of the patients PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Nearly 9 months in research and design in Urbana, U.S.A. LCare is a thesis project design FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: LCare is a sensor chair that can detect patients' emotions by analyzing people's sitting positions. The textile pressure sensor and the accelerometer mounted on the back, seat, and armrests are the leading technologies that get the data from the chair. The processor is for analyzing real-time data. Two LED light strips mounted on the two armrests are for the light signal to warn the doctors. The Bluetooth technology helps the chair remote the environment lighting. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Width 713mm x Depth 426m x Height 838 mm TAGS: Positive clinical experience, nonverbal emotion expression, sympathetic medical, pressure sensor, chair design, medical design, body language RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Poor communication in cancer care is getting more and more attention in the clinical area, and finding a way to understand what and when do the patients need more emotional support can be critical. Based on an enormous literature review, one of the best ways is to analyze patients' nonverbal emotional expression and visualize it to the doctors and caregivers. The designers have interviewed 3 cancer doctors and researchers and over 10 cancer patients, made 5 field trips to the Cancer Care Center of Decatur in Illinois, U.S. CHALLENGE: To create a positive consultation experience for cancer patients by detecting their emotion is one of the biggest challenges in the design. The design tries to propose a way that can protect the privacy of the patients, respect their dignity, and comfort their nerves. It enhances human connection by technology and helps to provide sympathetic medical. ADDED DATE: 2020-05-06 01:12:16 TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Fiorella Xiao and Sean Guo IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: Designer Fiorella Xiao, 2020 Optional Image #1: Designer Fiorella Xiao, 2020 Optional Image #2: Designer Fiorella Xiao, 2020 Optional Image #3: Designer Fiorella Xiao, 2020 Optional Image #4: Designer Fiorella Xiao, 2020 |
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NAME: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PROFILE: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was founded in 1867. The School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois is a thriving community of artists, designers, educators, and historians. The school is committed to excellence and innovation in the practice, study, and teaching of the visual arts. |
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Lcare Sensor Chair by Fiorella Xiao and Sean Guo is Runner-up for A' Design Award in Medical Devices and Medical Equipment Design Category, 2020 - 2021.· Read the interview with designer Fiorella Xiao and Sean Guo for design LCare here.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Fiorella Xiao and Sean Guo. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Fiorella Xiao and Sean Guo. |
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