Designing new scenarios of wearables through biodesign methods

The relation between the human body and new technologies (micro and nano) is continually changing. It is essential to emphasize the need to develop an interdisciplinary approach among the different areas, and to figure out their point of contact and their interest in the human being as a unicum entity. The design should drive these changes. In spite of a large number of projects, the consideration of industrial design in such research areas is absent. The contribution of industrial design, in order to be innovative, will have to develop an instrument that is able to support and guide the design process to structure and analyze several intervention levels. Trough microtechnologies, it is possible to project new devices around the human body, wearable. This paper highlights a new methodological approach for the estimation and satisfaction of wearability criteria (ability to wear) developed at the Biodesign Lab at Politecnico of Milano. In this paper, biodesign methods will be defined through the BABYmotion project, a research project developed in cooperation with Politecnico of Milan and the Paediatrics Dept. University Hospital. The BABYmotion project, a Newborn Motion Dysfunction Evaluation System, is a device for early comparative diagnosis of neurological disease in children affected by critical or pathological birth conditions.