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#makeitwork
Club Project
#makeitwork
Club Project
ASSISTED
BATHING
CHALLENGE
Competition by Ministry of Health Holdings
AWARDS
TOP 10
TIMELINE
OCT 2017 - NOV 2017
TEAM
Alexis Liu, Chang Chern Jie, Gan Zhi Yuan, Kok Hui Yuan
MENTOR
Professor Ng Heong Wah
SKILLS
Design Thinking, Low-Fi & Hi-Fi Prototyping, Marketing
MAIN ROLE
Designer, Graphic Designer
TOOLS
Solidworks, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
the challenge
EMPATHY
1. To improve the showering process for residents of aged care facilities who require assisted bathing.
2. To increase productivity by reducing the manpower required from care staff (from a minimum of 2 to 1 staff) and the total showering time taken.
3. To improve the space efficiency of the showering process to ensure that the current space norms for assisted bath is optimised.
To better understand the problem, my team and I went to visit a elderly care centre where we managed to:
1. Listened and watched the caregivers in action
2. Talk to some of the residents
3. View and measure the area where our product is going to be placed
This ensures that we managed to catch and hopefully tackle all of the pain points and frustrations and be able to include the desires of the elderly residents.
Frustrations:
1. Heavy lifting
2. Lack of manpower
3. Caregivers get wet in the process
4. Small and tight space in the washroom
Desires:
1. Sense of security while bathing
2. Comfort
3. Durable
4. Efficient
5. Reasonably priced
IDEATION
Sketches of some of our initial ideas:
3D Solidworks representation of some of our ideas:
HI-FI
PROTOTYPE
final
product:
the xpod
XPOD is an assisted bathing mechanism that aims to assist caregivers in helping bed bound and wheelchair bound elderly patients to bathe.
