Vertical Ultrasound Experience
Creators:
Armin Warnecke
Danny Stoermer
Curator's Note
Updated: September 2020
This projects prioritizes interaction and quality of service over medical product design. Though the designers took the technical base seriously they designed the experience around the interaction because the technical components need little to no space.
Patients are able to see what the doctors see. The transparency for the patient and the support for the doctor are definitely desirable features.
Abstract
The USX_V concept considers the quality of interaction and achieves a new form of comfort during a diagnosis process for both the radiologist and the patient. It displays a radical approach to making the doctors visit an experience of comfort and well being.
By formulating a scenario in which a vertical ultrasound setup is the center of action, the room around it needed to adapt to its specific interaction patterns and support the process with visual and atmospheric components. Hygiene played a big role in the development of this context (the room) and the vertical ultrasound as well.
Where the current model only uses wipes or almost needs to be taken apart to be cleaned USX_V‘s system architecture allows it to be detachable from its mounting guaranteeing a clean environment for every patient of the day as the outer parts are all washable.
The USX_V concept considers hygiene as well as the quality of interaction and achieves a new form of comfort during a diagnosis process for both the radiologist and the patient. It displays a radical approach to making the doctors visit an experience of comfort and well being.
