User involvement in early-stage design of medical training devices – case of a palpation task trainer prototype

Lost in Transit: Implications and Insights for Making Medical Task Trainer Prototypes with an Open Source Hardware Paradigm

“…Users were consulted from the initial phases to uncover current task trainers' needs and pain points (Sutcliffe and Sawyer 2013). Sufficient fidelity and realism were captured by continuously testing prototypes with expert users, as suggested by Ege et al (2021), while mitigating the risk of severe obstacles later in the project (Thomke and Reinertsen 1998;Takeuchi and Nonaka 1986). Intentional and reflective prototypes were built and tested with users to explore specific dimensions of the concept (Houde and Hill, 1997) and to elicit experts' tacit knowledge at an early stage of development, as previously demonstrated by Auflem et al (2019) and Ege et al (2020).…”