Happy Hand Hygiene, Design of a dispenser for children to improve hand hygiene at child day care centers

This report describes the process of designing a soap dispenser for children to improve hand hygiene at child day care centers. This project is part of project ‘‘Heel gewoon, Handen schoon’’, a cooperation project of Erasmus MC and GGD Rotterdam-Rijnmond. The aim of that project is to reduce the number of infections among children by improving the hand hygiene of both caregivers and children. First of all information about the aim of this project was gathered in the analysis phase. Literature research was carried out to find information about soap dispensers and its surrounding issues. Field research was conducted to find out what the expectances of the stakeholders of this project were. With this information a specific design direction and design vision of this project were formed. It was decided to design a wall mounted soap dispenser with the main focus to improve hand hygiene of children at child day care centers. With this specific design aim various ideas were generated based on inspiration sources. Next to that a creative session has been carried out to get ideas from other people that look at the problem from a different perspective. Finally six ideas have been developed, each one created specifically for the needs of the key stakeholders. Three of these ideas were chosen for further development in the concept phase. The choice was based on the all-round potential the ideas showed and on the opinion of two caregivers of a child day care center in Sassenheim. In the concept development phase the three chosen ideas were elaborated to a level that shows they can result into feasible products. The functions, the aesthetics and the production of the concepts have been elaborated in detail. With this detailed information one of the concepts has been chosen to develop further. A Harris profile has been made to compare the concepts. The ratings of the concept were based on small tests, the opinion of caregivers and firm estimations. Finally the ‘‘Funny Fish’’ concept was chosen to develop as final product of this project. A digital model of the ‘‘Funny Fish’’ concept was made to optimize the details. Based on this model a prototype has been made for a final user test. This test was conducted at two child day care centers which have never used or seen the dispenser before. During this test some improvement points has been noticed, but generally the children liked the dispenser and it did what it was designed for; stimulating children to wash their hands (for a longer time). Finally the noticed improvement points have been written down as recommendations for the future.

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hand hygiene
design

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