Packaging e medicinali

Nel mondo dei progettisti ad ogni forma deve corrispondere una funzione. Nel caso dei farmaci la forma è solo uno dei problemi al quale il designer deve pensare. Come sappiamo, in commercio esistono numerosi prodotti che possono essere scambiati tra loro a causa di forme, colori o etichette simili. La forma riguarda il senso della vista ma anche quello del tatto: superfici calde, fredde, gommose, pungenti stimolano l’utente in modo diverso. Le confezioni dei medicinali dovrebbero diversificarsi notevolmente dall’immaginario di categorie totalmente diverse quali prodotti per la pulizia, alimenti o elettrodomestici. Di primo acchito riusciamo a capire cosa contiene una determinata confezione perché l’abbiamo interiorizzata attraverso l’esperienza, tuttavia questo processo può essere molto pericoloso. Questo automatismo può essere arrestato dall’ultimo elemento d’interazione tra l’utente e la confezione del farmaco, il tappo. Lavorare sulla sua forma può fornire un elemento forte di riconoscibilità delle sostanze

Health and social care ergonomics: patient safety in practice

Health and social care ergonomics: patient safety in practic

Supporting Communities by Providing Multiple Views

A number of dimensions are relevant in order to successfully support community life and development. These dimensions include the easiness and broad spectrum of participation, the provision of value in return to the contributions, the visibility of community activity, the support of different levels of membership, the openness to the external world, and the support for evolving phases of the community life. In this paper we present a system that has been designed in order to tackle those dimensions with a particular attention to participation issues. We present first the sources of requirements that have informed the system design and which include the user observation of two companies. Then we present the system, stressing the features of integration with the daily working environment and the provision of multiple situated views, as a means to address the elicited requirements. Finally, we compare our design choices with a broader set of requirements that we have derived from literature

Variability of adverse events in the public health-care service of the Tuscany region

adverse event

Showcasing the HFE orientation guide for Patient Safety jointly promoted by WHO and IEA

In order to promote the application of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) methods and practices for improving healthcare safety in general and patient safety in particular, the WHO (World Health Organization) and the IEA (International Ergonomic Association) are collaborating on a jointly-produced document with engagement from international HFE experts