ANGELA KIM PORTFOLIO I N D U S T R I A L
D E S I G N
RESEARCH AND OBSERVATIONS
PROBLEM From my own personal experience of being an inpatient, I observed clinicians spending a large amount of time recording a patient’s vital signs into their charts. There were many instances where patients were interrupted during activities or sleep and had to spend their time in line, waiting to get their vitals checked. It was especially difficult to find an available nurse when they were understaffed. After interviewing three nurses from the critical care and psychiatric care units, I have found that a common obstacle they all face is having to carry or wheel around a vitals machine to each patient.
P O R TA G E
A wearable incorporated in the everyday life in the medical area monitoring the patient’s vital signs. Portage is a 24 hour wearable band that detects the heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and blood pressure for those who are hospitalized and/or in a rehabilitation center. Data is linked wirelessly through any monitor screen for the nurse to track each individual’s vital signs, without having to see the patient in front of them. Using the patient’s body temperature, Portage is able to read the user’s current emotion which is visually portrayed through transformations in material of the band.
MONITOR SCREEN
Data processed from the vitals band will be shown through a digital screen
Angela Kim
4-19-2015 Patient Summary
Angela Kim ID #: 8130 Gender: Female
RR
110
BP
120/80
HR
77
DOB: 7/23/1994 DOA: 4/2/2015 Weight: 125 lb Height: 5’’2
T.
Angela Kim
4-19-2015
1:42 PM
Angela Kim
4-19-2015 Patient Summary
bpm
Angela Kim ID #: 8130 Gender: Female
mmHg
DOB: 7/23/1994 DOA: 4/2/2015 Weight: 125 lb
BPM
Height: 5’’2
98 F
1:42 PM
Angela Kim
4-19-2015
Patient Summary
Patient Summary
Angela Kim
Angela Kim
ID #: 8130
ID #: 8130
Gender: Female
Gender: Female
DOB: 7/23/1994
DOB: 7/23/1994
DOA: 4/2/2015 Weight: 125 lb Height: 5’’2
Current Status Normal, Optimistic, Accepting, Calm, Peaceful, Pleasant
DOA: 4/2/2015 Weight: 125 lb Height: 5’’2
CODE BLUE RM 36-B
INNOVATION
Given today’s 2014 design of Milton CAT’s pallet truck, my team members (Erol Ozcelik, Alex Gentry, Jules Johnson) and I were assigned to create a new and imrpoved housing for the truck. The main focus was to improve the eyesight of the workers so that they could see the two forks of the truck when loading pallets. When designing the pallet truck, we had to consider how to best arrange the different parts of the truck: five batteries, a lift cylinder, and a hydralic fluid tank.
Given five 300mm x 150mm x 330mm batteries, a lift cylinder with a 120mm diameter, and a 50mm hydraulic fluid tank that holds 2 liters, we have designed a pallet truck for the European Market that allows maximum sight. The angles of the shell are designed so that from the average 5’’3’ short people (Angela’s height), to the average 6’ tall people (Gentry’s height) are able to see the tips of the rails when loading. Because the 20’’ front wall of the shell is required, we each tested to see how the walls past the front will hinder our vision when pushing the truck. We have concluded that the front 20’’ wall blocks our vision of the rails first, even when the walls past the front are higher.
MOLD MAKING CASTING
This assignment introduced the concepts of mold making and casting processes. We were to manipulate two surfaces of a wooden 5”x5”x5” pyramid geoform and make a mother mold using plaster, clay, and rubber. Using the mother mold, I made a concrete casting of my original pyramid.
WOODWORK
MOLD CASTING PROCESS
pour spout plaster mother mold (1/2’’)
keys (aligns mother and blanket mold) clay blanket mold (1/2’’)
Clay and plaster blanket mold
PMC 121-130 rubber mother mold
wooden pyramid
wooden base
wood screw (to keep in place)