Umeå Institute of Design / 2020 / 10 weeks / research & interaction / group project with Shuai Li, Rafaela Stillner and Sonya Swan

Early Mobilization is essential for a patient’s physical and mental recovery in the Intensive Care Unit. Even though mobilization can decrease the patients’ hospital stay by 50%, it’s not a standard routine in ICU today. Mainly because it takes a lot of time and requires multiple staff, who also needs the right knowledge.

The solution is EMI - a system enabling a simplified Early Mobilization experience by improving the cable organization, wireless patient monitoring, and guidance. When Early Mobilization is performed, the wireless monitoring device enhances the patient’s freedom of movement. The EMI projector guides the ICU staff, patient’s relatives, or the patient, through the exercise by projections. The guidance make relatives more supportive and increases the patient motivation. The EMI software gathers all information about the patient and creates a patient-tailored mobilization plan for fast and effective recovery in the ICU.