TY - GEN
T1 - 3D printing and IoT for personalized everyday objects in nursing and healthcare
AU - Asano, Yoshihiro
AU - Tanaka, Hiroya
AU - Miyagawa, Shoko
AU - Yoshioka, Junki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 SPIE.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Today, application of 3D printing technology for medical use is getting popular. It strongly helps to make complicated shape of body parts with functional materials. We can complement injured, weakened or lacked parts, and recover original shape and functions. However, these cases are mainly focusing on the symptom itself, not on everyday lives of patients. With life span extending, many of us will live a life with chronic disease for long time. Then, we should think about our living environment more carefully. For example, we can make personalized everyday objects and support their body and mind. Therefore, we use 3D printing for making everyday objects from nursing/healthcare perspective. In this project, we have 2 main research questions. The first one is how to make objects which patients really require. We invited many kinds of people such as engineer, nurses and patients to our research activity. Nurses can find patient's real demands firstly, and engineers support them with rapid prototyping. Finally, we found the best collaboration methodologies among nurses, engineers and patients. The second question is how to trace and evaluate usages of created objects. Apparently, it's difficult to monitor user's activity for a long time. So we're developing the IoT sensing system, which monitor activities remotely. We enclose a data logger which can lasts about one month with 3D printed objects. After one month, we can pick up the data from objects and understand how it has been used.
AB - Today, application of 3D printing technology for medical use is getting popular. It strongly helps to make complicated shape of body parts with functional materials. We can complement injured, weakened or lacked parts, and recover original shape and functions. However, these cases are mainly focusing on the symptom itself, not on everyday lives of patients. With life span extending, many of us will live a life with chronic disease for long time. Then, we should think about our living environment more carefully. For example, we can make personalized everyday objects and support their body and mind. Therefore, we use 3D printing for making everyday objects from nursing/healthcare perspective. In this project, we have 2 main research questions. The first one is how to make objects which patients really require. We invited many kinds of people such as engineer, nurses and patients to our research activity. Nurses can find patient's real demands firstly, and engineers support them with rapid prototyping. Finally, we found the best collaboration methodologies among nurses, engineers and patients. The second question is how to trace and evaluate usages of created objects. Apparently, it's difficult to monitor user's activity for a long time. So we're developing the IoT sensing system, which monitor activities remotely. We enclose a data logger which can lasts about one month with 3D printed objects. After one month, we can pick up the data from objects and understand how it has been used.
KW - 3D Printing
KW - Collaboration
KW - Data logging
KW - Flexibility Control
KW - Healthcare
KW - Inclusive Design
KW - IoT
KW - Nursing
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2261651
DO - 10.1117/12.2261651
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85024125321
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Nanosensors, Biosensors, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems 2017
A2 - Varadan, Vijay K.
PB - SPIE
T2 - Nanosensors, Biosensors, Info-Tech Sensors and 3D Systems 2017
Y2 - 26 March 2017 through 29 March 2017
ER -