I was working as a user experience designer in a welfare technology project “Sterilcentral Project” (Welfare Tech Region) that explores the role of robot technology and automation in hospitals to increase efficiency of sterilizing medical equipment,while reducing employee attrition through automating repetitive work tasks.
The Xperience Design Research Group I was part of, is facilitating the innovation process, especially the methods and techniques in understanding the current practices and pursuing concepts for the next generation of sterilization centers.
I was focusing my studies on the social interaction between the sterilisation workers and the future concepts that we were developing as a co-design process with multiple stakeholders. One of the questions raised was : What is the impact of the automation and robots on the working welfare within the future sterilisation practice? To investigate this I was employing the methods and techniques used in participatory design.