A study on examining user comfort in hospital beds

Güzide Güzelbey Esengün; Ekrem Cem Alppay

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60582-1_89

A study on examining user comfort in hospital beds

Güzide Güzelbey Esengün^*, Ekrem Cem Alppay

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Industrial Design

Istanbul Technical University

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Abstract

Hospital beds are one of the most interacted medical devices by patients and medical personnel. Whether the interactions between the hospital beds and its users become efficient or inefficient highly depends on comfort of the hospital beds. This study focuses on two aspects: determining the comfort criteria for hospital beds and proposing a checklist based on the determined comfort criteria to evaluate the comfort of hospital beds. To determine the comfort criteria, comfort studies from various areas and products are investigated followed by a product design decomposition and a semi-structured interview study. As a result, a comfort evaluation checklist is proposed to be used not only for evaluating the comfort of hospital beds but also be used as a guideline in the design process of hospital beds.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Ergonomics in Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, 2017
Editors	Francisco Rebelo, Marcelo Soares
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	886-896
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9783319605814
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60582-1_89
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	AHFE 2017 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, 2017 - Los Angeles, United States Duration: 17 Jul 2017 → 21 Jul 2017

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	588
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357

Conference

Conference	AHFE 2017 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Los Angeles
Period	17/07/17 → 21/07/17

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© Springer International Publishing AG 2018.

Keywords

Checklist
Comfort
Hospital beds

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Esengün, G. G., & Alppay, E. C. (2018). A study on examining user comfort in hospital beds. In F. Rebelo, & M. Soares (Eds.), Advances in Ergonomics in Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, 2017 (pp. 886-896). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 588). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60582-1_89

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Esengün, GG & Alppay, EC 2018, A study on examining user comfort in hospital beds. in F Rebelo & M Soares (eds), Advances in Ergonomics in Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 588, Springer Verlag, pp. 886-896, AHFE 2017 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, 2017, Los Angeles, United States, 17/07/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60582-1_89

A study on examining user comfort in hospital beds. / Esengün, Güzide Güzelbey; Alppay, Ekrem Cem.
Advances in Ergonomics in Design - Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, 2017. ed. / Francisco Rebelo; Marcelo Soares. Springer Verlag, 2018. p. 886-896 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 588).

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