Aleksandra Kaleta-Pyrek
Service Designer
Sustainable Futures by
Participatory Design
Biosence ~ You can be a part of something bigger
In collaboration with NHS Scotland, the University of Glasgow and Glasgow School of Art, as students, we were asked to explore future experiences within Cancer Care and Precision Medicine (PM).
As a technology group, we envisage the future where monitoring, by using wearable devices, is the norm. Instead of focusing on the passive aspects of the interaction with these technologies, we uncovered a feedback loop. Collaboration between all stakeholders increases patients' understanding of their own condition. This leads to more effective treatment. By sharing personal information patients become co-creators in their own healthcare. The final outcome is a new future experience created individually.
In my individual part of the project, I imagined the future where epidemiology and geomedicine are integrated into healthcare. Because to be the most effective PM needs data thus research about our genes, lifestyle, and environment. The last one seems to be the biggest gap in our knowledge. Therefore, the complex relationship between human health and the environment needs to be investigated.
Biosence is a healthcare system using technological devices to collect new data about the environment we live in. Allowing measure the air we breathe in, scan what we consume and are exposed to. The new data would be saved with its location and time, as well as accessible for everyone, as an open-source and individual health record. The research from this program might contribute to increased awareness of our global commons, precision medicine development and cancer prevention. Everyone could be a part of something bigger.
2029,
Now, when epidemiology has been developed and geomedicine is a part of our health record, the complex relationships between the environment and human health have been investigated.
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