Incuabtor Field Team Leaves for Nepal
This Sunday, IDEO volunteer Colleen Cotter and DtM Fellow Matt Eckelman will lead a group of Stanford University graduate students to Nepal for week of in-depth user interviews and observations at maternity wards and infant care facilities in and around Kathmandu.
The students have taken on DtM's low cost infant incubator project as part of "Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability", a d.school course taught by Profs. Jim Patell and David Beach through the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Engineering school, and the Institute of Design.
The goal of the field study is to develop a deeper understanding of both the product context and user perspectives. The resulting insights will drive the development of the student incubator prototypes during the Spring quarter course. We expect great things from the field team, and we hope they enjoy the buff momos!
IDEO volunteer Colleen Cotter and students field team members review Nepal research objectives at a pre-travel workshop hosted at the Stanford d.school.
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