The Loop includes a pill container and an APP, the goal is to visualizing patient's medication treatment foot print, and bringing awareness of their body transformation, in order to engaging treatment
We visualize your medication process.
Overview
"How might we provide awareness of body transformation, in order to empower the patients who are suffering mental disorder?"
For this project, my goal was to create a product to provide informations and spread awareness of our own body in circumstances.
TIMELINE
September - December 2022
SKILLS
User Research
3D Modeling
Prototyping
Industrial Design
UI Design
Individual Work
TOOLS
Solidworks
Keyshot
3D Printing
Figma
Adobe Illustrator
Silicon
Background Information
Roughly 40% of adults in mental health treatment each year drop out before completing their recommended course of treatment in United States.
Patients who are on the medication treatment are very likely to stop taking medication without counseling with doctor, and they have a high probability of getting caught into this vicious loop:
Most common reasons for patients discontinuing medical treatment are:
1. Serious side effects
2. Conditions were improved.
Patients are lack of awareness of their mental health and medical treatment process, and illness takes away controllability of their own body from them.
Problem
How Might We:
How might we provide awareness of body transformation, in order to help patients engaging medical treatment?
Application
Guiding and documenting medical treatment process.
Product Feature
Pill dispenser
Classify and contain medication
Physical Product
This pill dispenser is made by recycled plastic and silicon. It contains 14 compartments, categorized medications for twice-daily dosage, with one week as a cycle.
Application: Arrangement
Medical arrangement for pill dispenser based on prescription.
Notification & Info Collection
Sending notification of reminder and the survey by the day. Using camera to scan container for obtaining daily dosage information.
Info Collection
Survey about side effects reaction, events, and specific feeling or emotion by the day.
Footprint
Every week The LOOP will provides a summary of the course to its user. It visualizes dosage, adaptation trend of side effects, and key emotions by the week.
The summary not only provides awareness for patient to adapt the situation and adjust their life balance, but also can be a reference for psychiatrist.
Application: Input
Scan the prescription of medication, it will gather the dosage and note for you.
Name：Byrian
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Identification: MTF
HRT: Spironolactone
Progynova
Cyproterone acetate
User Observation
Name：Xiaochu
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Diagnoses: Bipolar
Medication: Quetiapine
Lithium Carbonate
Alprazolam
Problems to think of:
If objective factors can't be resolved, what about the subjective impact?
How does side effects influence patient's functionality?
How do we understand more about our own body?
How do we take back the controllability of ourself from illness?
Design Development
User Scenario
Scan prescription and gain info.
Medication arrangement guidance
Notification
Scan pill dispenser and finish survey of the day
