PROJECT02 | portfolio

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

1/5

Sketches of some of our initial ideas:

3D Solidworks representation of some of our ideas:

1/3

HI-FI

PROTOTYPE

BACK

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.

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