Title :
New market, new challenge, new opportunity (2) -User context research
Author :
Jiang, Jiehui ; Kandachar, Prabhu
Author_Institution :
Department of Design Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE), Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Abstract :
China has a largest population in the world (1.3Billion) and 0.9 Billion is rural population. Most of rural people earn less than US$3/day, and they are called “Base of the economic pyramid (BoP)”. A new research project has been initiated on “The Healthcare Design for China Rural BoP” to the PhD of first author. This paper is about one part of this research: user context research. Two main processes will be introduced in this step: Qualitative research and quantitative research. Some healthcare needs in China rural like “Cancer early detection” has been found as the insights of this research.
Keywords :
Cancer detection; Context awareness; Design engineering; Design methodology; Feedback; Industrial relations; Medical services; Medical tests; Product design; System testing; Base of the pyramid (BoP); Rural healthcare; User context research; China; Delivery of Health Care; Rural Population; Socioeconomic Factors;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649474
