Participate and co-create: A living lab for digital health promotion
Exercise-based games, apps, and digital health-related decision-making tools can enable us to better manage our own health. In order to develop meaningful applications from the flood of health data, experts from medicine, care and design are working together with users.
Digitization poses new challenges for the healthcare system and at the same time offers many opportunities. Patients and their families are empowered by tracking and the permanent availability of various health data to assume more personal responsibility and to play a more active role in shaping their health history. At the same time, physicians and specialists are challenged to design individually tailored treatment strategies, to interpret increasingly complex data, to establish more comprehensive correlations and thus to help both patients and their relatives to better orient themselves.
In order for the data and information to be used meaningfully, it must be processed and presented in a way that is comprehensible to patients and physicians. This is exactly where the Digital Health Design Living Lab (DHD Living Lab) comes in. It brings together three Zurich universities (ZHdK, UZH and ZHAW), medical experts, patient organizations and the public. Experts from different fields exchange ideas in order to develop new and practical ideas for the future of healthcare.
In doing so, they actively involve patients, relatives and the public in order to understand their needs and wishes and to develop tailored, innovative solutions. The collaboration is intended to increase stakeholders’ trust, awareness and knowledge of healthcare and the use of digital technologies. This should ultimately help prevent disease and promote better health in the long term.
At Scientifica, interactive prototypes from ongoing research and development projects such as digital, movement-based games, health-related tools and decision-making aids invite visitors to try them out and participate.
