Mallakin Maryam, Langley Joe, Harvey Gillian, Walker Sarah, Raber Caylee, Beyzaei Nadia, Paczka Giorgi Luz A, Holyoke Paul, Sellen Kate
Health Design Studio, OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Jul 17;13:e58318. doi: 10.2196/58318.
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly transformed the landscape of work and collaboration, impacting design research methodologies and techniques. Co-design approaches have been both negatively and positively affected by the pandemic, prompting a need to investigate and understand the extent of these impacts, changes, and adaptations, specifically in the health sector. Despite the challenges that the pandemic imposed on conducting co-design and related projects, it also encouraged a re-evaluation of co-design practices, leading to innovative solutions and techniques. Designers and researchers have explored alternative ways to engage stakeholders and end users, leveraging digital workshops and participatory digital platforms. These adaptations have the potential to enhance inclusivity, allowing for a wider range of individuals to contribute their perspectives and insights through co-design and thus contribute to healthcare change.
This study aims to explore the impacts of the pandemic on co-design and related practices, focusing on co-design practices in healthcare that have been gained, adapted, or enhanced, with a specific focus on issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
The study uses a realist synthesis methodology to identify and analyze the effects of the pandemic on co-design approaches in health, drawing on a range of sources including first-person experiences, gray literature, and academic literature. A community of practice in co-design in health will be engaged to support this process.
By examining the experiences and insights of professionals, practitioners, and communities who were actively involved in co-design and have navigated the challenges and opportunities of the pandemic, we can gain a deeper understanding of the strategies, tools, and techniques that have facilitated effective co-design during the pandemic, contributing to building resilience and capacity in co-design in health beyond the pandemic.
By involving community partners, community of practice (research), and design practitioners, we expect closer proximity to practice with capacity building occurring through the realist process, thus enabling rapid adoption and refinement of new techniques or insights that emerge. Ultimately, this research will contribute to the advancement of co-design methodologies and inform the future of co-design in health.
INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/58318.
新冠疫情极大地改变了工作与协作的格局，影响了设计研究方法和技术。协同设计方法在疫情期间受到了负面和正面的双重影响，这促使我们有必要去调查和了解这些影响、变化及适应的程度，尤其是在卫生领域。尽管疫情给开展协同设计及相关项目带来了挑战，但它也促使人们重新评估协同设计实践，从而催生出创新的解决方案和技术。设计师和研究人员探索了利用数字工作坊和参与式数字平台来让利益相关者和终端用户参与的替代方法。这些调整有可能增强包容性，使更多人能够通过协同设计贡献自己的观点和见解，进而推动医疗变革。
本研究旨在探讨疫情对协同设计及相关实践的影响，重点关注医疗保健领域中已获得、调整或强化的协同设计实践，特别关注公平、多样性和包容性问题。
本研究采用现实主义综合方法，通过包括第一人称经历、灰色文献和学术文献在内的一系列来源，识别和分析疫情对卫生领域协同设计方法的影响。将邀请卫生领域协同设计实践社区来支持这一过程。
通过审视积极参与协同设计并应对了疫情挑战与机遇的专业人员、从业者和社区的经验与见解，我们能够更深入地了解在疫情期间促进有效协同设计的策略、工具和技术，为疫情过后增强卫生领域协同设计的恢复力和能力做出贡献。
通过让社区合作伙伴、实践社区（研究）和设计从业者参与进来，我们期望通过现实主义过程更贴近实践并实现能力建设，从而能够迅速采用和完善新出现的技术或见解。最终，本研究将推动协同设计方法的进步，并为卫生领域协同设计的未来发展提供参考。
国际注册报告识别号（IRRID）：DERR1-10.2196/58318
