Mapeamento da produção sobre design de interação e saúde digital na pós-graduação brasileira

Abstract

This work aims to understand the state of knowledge production in design for digital health in Brazilian graduate programmes. As a relatively new area in both design and healthcare, digital health faces a scenario of great potential, but also enormous challenges. Therefore, the work used quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyse the content of 47 theses and dissertations on the subject. Among other potentialities discovered, it was observed that the theme, in design research in Brazil, is strongly linked to projects on health education, games, and behaviour change and well-being. The main challenges are the difficulties in establishing a digital culture with design in health research environments, the positioning of design in multidisciplinary teams, and bringing the results of academic research closer to the market. After consolidating the results of the analysis, three experts were invited to discuss them. From these rounds of discussion, it was concluded that the educational role of the university is fundamental to foster a culture of design in health and technology teams, as well as to develop a series of skills necessary for designers to assume a leading role in the digitalization of health.