Design and Digital Interactive System for Medicine

Cristina Portugal
In: Electronic Workshops in Computing · 2015 · doi:10.14236/ewic/eva2015.10 · W2294791628
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This interdisciplinary research project developed a novel, bilingual, interactive digital system using design methods to aid surgical teams in diagnosing and operating on endometriosis patients.

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This paper presents a research project of interdisciplinary nature between the fields of Design and Medicine, which was supported by Tender FAPERJ No. 41/2013 – “Support program for Emerging Research Groups in the State of Rio de Janeiro – 2013” and that aimed to technologically develop an interactive digital system to help the surgical team in the operative act for treatment of patients with endometriosis. This paper will present the methodological aspects that guided this investigation, which has a qualitative approach, and the result of this project, which was the creation of an unprecedented digital bilingual interactive system, in light of methods and techniques of Design, to be used in national and international circles both for recording the diagnosis of endometriosis as well as in surgeries.

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