Co-designing child-friendly Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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Brief Abstract
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) has become ubiquitous in 2020 due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Yet, PPE can be scary, unfriendly, and confronting for children. Working with Sunshine Coast University Hospital and Queensland Children’s Hospital, this project aims to develop less frightening PPE for the staff to wear, so that the children they interact with are less afraid.

<a href=”https://www.slideshare.net/eve13/qut-designers-in-healthcare-heal-2021-report”>HEAL report with more information on the project itself, and other 20+ projects completed in the last year under the HEAL Program with CEQ.</a>

Presenter BIO’s

Dr Marianella Chamorro-Koc –is Associate Professor in Industrial Design. Her expertise is in Design for Health methods investigating people engagement with health technologies. Her transdisciplinary collaborations involves the development of research prototypes of health tech devices for personal use as a method for enquiry in Health 4.0.

Dr Clare Thomas – is Paediatrician, Simulation Expert, Patient Safety and ieMR Lead at the Sunshine Coast HHS. She is the medical lead researcher in this project.

Dr Lauren Kearney – is Paediatric Nurse and Midwife. She currently works as an Associate Professor within the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, USC. She has strong links with the SCHHS and contribution to the study will be to provide a bridge between healthcare and design research.

Dr Rafael Gomez – is an Industrial Designer and his expertise is in emotion and experience design with wearable tech with various projects in the medical / health context.

Isabel Byram – is QUT intern for this project. She is an MPhil candidate at QUT and her background is Fashion Design. She has previous expertise in the design of PPEs for healthcare. Her role is to assist the implementation of methods and conduct codesign sessions and concept design ideation and model making.