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Research outputs from the SustaMED Lab

2025

Integrating Co-Design in Clinical Healthcare: Lessons from a Living Lab at AZ Groeninge Hospital

Brosens, Lore; Janssens, Manu; Örnekoğlu Selçuk, Melis; Beerten, Pieter; Detand, Jan • Book of Proceedings: INNOVATING HEALTH & DAILY LIFE THROUGH LIVING LABS Health & wellbeing living lab symposium & Smart Healthy Environments World Conference

Unmasking Unintentional Discrimination: A Framework for Bias-Aware Medical Device Design

Smet, Elisabeth • Ghent University

2024

Integration of sustainability in the design process of medical devices: application to dry electrodes

Pieter Beerten, Victor-Paul Grandjean, Gilles Decroly, Nicolas Gaspard, Alain Delchambre and Antoine Nonclercq • 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)

2023

Barriers and enablers for the implementation of design for sustainability in Flemish design agencies

Beerten, Pieter; Ostuzzi, Francesca; Brosens, Lore • PLATE Conference: the 5th Product Lifetimes and the Environment Conference, Proceedings

2022

Expanding the possibilities of prone crawl positioning for breast radiotherapy

Schoepen, Max • Ghent University

2021

Prone crawl breast couch: analysis of the translational development of a patient support device for breast cancer radiotherapy

Schoepen, Max; Detand, Jan; Veldeman, Liv; Van Hulle, Hans; Vakaet, Vincent; De Neve, Wilfried • Design Health

2020

Second-degree frugal innovation in the Belgian healthcare system

Maertens, Marieke; De Schepper, Katrien; De Couvreur, Lieven; Hoveskog, Maya; Norris, Nicole; Ostuzzi, Francesca • Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) 2020 Symposium, Systemic Design Association Ahmedabad, India

Crawl positioning improves set-up precision and patient comfort in prone whole breast irradiation

Deseyne, Pieter et al. • Scientific Reports

2018

Development of a new prone patient support device for radiation therapy of breast and regional lymph nodes

Boute, Bert • Ghent University

The relation between patient discomfort and uncompensated forces of a patient support device for breast and regional lymph node radiotherapy

Boute, Bert et al. • Applied Ergonomics

2017

The prototyping process of a patient support device for radiotherapy of breast and regional lymph nodes in prone position

Boute, Bert; De Neve, Wilfried; Detand, Jan • Design4Health Conference

Potential benefits of crawl position for prone radiation therapy in breast cancer

Boute, Bert et al. • Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

2015

+TUO project: low cost 3D printers as helpful tool for small communities with rheumatic diseases

Ostuzzi, Francesca; Rognoli, Valentina; Saldien, Jelle; Levi, Marinella • Rapid Prototyping Journal

2013

The role of subjective well-being in co-designing open-design assistive devices

De Couvreur, Lieven et al. • International Journal of Design

2011

The role of flow experience in codesigning open-design assistive devices

De Couvreur, Lieven; Detand, Jan; Goossens, Richard • Include 2011 London

2009

Design for [every]one

De Couvreur, Lieven et al. • International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces

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