Celsio - Empowering diabetes patients through
fearless medical devices
Brief
Designing a product that is taking a stance for non-stigmatizing and unscary aesthetics of medical devices such as those for diabetic patients.
Approach
At the centre of the design process is an analysis of the aesthetics of textures I created during a land-art workshop with materials I found in Krk, Croatia.
Details
Individual 4-weeks side project at the Universit of Applied Sciences in Graz from 2018.
Type
Form-exploration
Impact
Celsio is a medical device for diabetic patients. It can be used for transporting insulin pens and for measuring the insulin level in a non-invasive way.
Introduction
Celsio is a non-stigmatizing diabetes-care-kit that increases the user's mobility by easing the cooling and transportation of insulin pens and enables an unscary, non-invasive glucose testing.
The cooling process is ensured by an evaporative system that doesn’t require any electricity to work which brings more independence to the user. When thinking about Celio's aesthetics of interaction just think of
the feeling of touching stones on the seashore.
The interface for the non-invasive glucose testing works by being gently stroked with the user’s fingertip. The result is then directly shown on the device. It can be also stored in an additional app.
When you think about diabetes you probably think about someone who eats poorly & hates to exercise... that's why Celsio is taking a stance for non-stigmatizing aesthetics in medical products
Facts about Diabetes patients
387 million people are living with diabetes worldwide
1 in 11
+ 257 million until the year 2035
Strokes
Kidney diseases
Blindness
Nerve damages
Heart diseases
Problems identified in research
Invasive glucose testing
Primitive insulin cooling
Messy transportation
Stigmatization of patients
Personas from user-research
How to use Celsio
Aesthetics of interaction
"Non-invasive glucose testing should have a different narrative than fingerprint testing we are familiar with security and surveillance systems.
Celsio's aesthetics of interaction should make you think of the sensual feeling you get from touching rough stones on the beach."
I got inspired by different patterns and textures, I created during a land-art workshop with stones, water and plastic foil at the island of Krk in Croatia, 2016
Me and two other friends working on a land-art experiment at Krk
Non-invasive glucose testing
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153 / pmm
stroking the tactile interface with fingers
test completed - reading results
sensors measuring the glucose level
The parts Celsio consists of
The different shades of Celiso
