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Digi-NewB is a system currently being developed to monitor and predict the risk of sepsis in infants within a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) setting. More than 300,000 preterm infants are hospitalized each year in a European care unit. Sepsis diagnosis is complex and therefore usually late, resulting in an increased risk. In this paper, we present on our experience with applying a participatory design based prototyping method to create user interface (UI) concepts for the Digi-Newb system and then testing the prototypes with end-users. Prototype making within the participatory design framework was found to be an effective method to rapidly develop potential design solutions, utilizing the experience of the end-user as a design partner.
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Harte, R. et al. (2019). Prototyping a User Interface for a New Sepsis Risk Decision Support System Using Participatory Design. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Systems Engineering and Design. IHSED 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02053-8_37
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