Frida Almqvist Service design tools for co-creation

The importance of patient centricity is frequently emphasized in healthcare strategies. More recently, service design and co-creation has also been introduced into the same context. As the accentuation of these three notions is increasing, the question evolves of what service design and co-creation can offer to patient centered healthcare service development. While previous research has a theoretical approach to the topic, there is a lack of research addressing the following question, using a more practice-oriented approach: How might service design tools support patient involvement in the co-creation of Norwegian healthcare services? This broad research question is addressed through three sub questions: 1.) What are the challenges of involving users in the innovation of healthcare services, from a service design perspective? 2.) How might service design tools support the involvement of users that are hard to reach and challenging to involve in co-creation processes for health care innovations? 3.) How might service design tools support project teams to keep a patient perspective throughout the whole process, when developing healthcare services? I address the issue through a Research by Design approach, which is grounded in service design practice. Hence, this thesis is not only about the exploration, but also development and testing of service design tools. 

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Institute of Design / Simon Clatworthy (Supervisor)

PhD started in 2015