Radio 4's Casenotes describes a robotic drug dispensing system designed to reduce human error in hospital pharmacies. The system reads barcodes on packaging and picks and delivers the drugs to the pharmacist's work station. However the robot is limited by packaging size: it can't pick small packages. Sounds like a design opportunity.
One nugget that I picked up in the programme was that it wasn't until 1972 that drug packaging was required to display the name of its contents (and indeed I can remember medicine bottles saying just 'The mixture').
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An occasional listing of notes and anecdotes on user-centred design
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Alison Black - I'm a psychologist and, having worked for many years in the design of user-centred products and services, am now Professor of User-Centred Design at University of Reading, UK.
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In 'A Study in Scarlet' Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: "I believe that a man's brain is like a little empty attic, and you stock it with such furniture as you choose....the skillful workman will have...nothing but the tools which will help him doing his work..."
As we now know, Conan Doyle's analogy doesn't quite tell the full story of the brain but nevertheless this blog is a place for me to store notes that, if not logged here, might be forgotten.
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