Fabiola Cortes-Chavez

• Doctor of Engineering
• Research Professor at Universidad Panamericana Sede Guadalajara

El comercio informal en México representa un componente esencial de la economía, ya que genera empleo e ingresos para sectores vulnerables. Este estudio se centra en las “nenis”, emprendedoras que utilizan plataformas digitales para vender productos que entregan en espacios públicos, como el Parque Rojo en Guadalajara. A través de entrevistas y obs...

Studies indicate that parents consider pediatric medical encounters as stressful. One of the things they feel stressful is the uncertainty that revolves around the information in the medical prescription provided by the pediatrician since the information presented is not clear, confusing, and ambiguous. However, this feeling is more pronounced in n...

Good sleep quality is essential in human life due to its impact on health. Currently, technology has focused on providing specific features for quality sleep monitoring in people. This work represents a contribution to state of the art on non-invasive technologies that can help improve the quality of people’s sleep at a low cost. We reviewed the sl...

The education of the creative professions is always a challenge, and speaking of the new generations of product designers, it further complicates the need to find new ways to capture their attention and correctly teach the basics of design. That is why we present a teaching tool that promotes the education of the design, the logic of design togethe...

For many years, humans have being using the resources of the planet to create a more comfortable way of living without thinking the consequencues. Construction is considered to be one of the areas that generates great impact to the environment.Today, one of the biggest concerns is caring for the environment based on all the premises that sustainabi...

Estimations affirm that by 2030 there will be 9 billion people on our planet, which makes the problem of food a priority issue. A large part of the food, especially in industrialized countries, is packaged, either fresh produce from the field (fruits and vegetables) or cooked products, many of them in the ready-to-take mode.The recent COVID-19 pand...

During the general medical consultation protocol, there is a clinical exploration phase called anamnesis, which is carried out through an interrogation by the patient's treating physician, where information such as patient identification data, reason for consultation, family history is collected. , personal pathological history and psychosocial his...

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/20/9430 The medical device design process has a responsibility to define the characteristics of the object to ensure its correct interaction with users. This study presents a proposal to improve medical device design processes in order to increase user acceptance by considering two key factors: the user hierarchy a...

This article presents a comparative analysis of birthing beds, using two different design processes to realize if one improves user satisfaction by improving the design process. We present a comparative study between the traditional product design process (consumer product design) and the new design process based on hierarchies (proposed in this st...

When analyzing the significant stressors on children, nurses, and the tutor of the patient during their chemotherapy treatment, studies showed medical procedures, such as needles and nasogastric tubes, loss of control, hospital environment, relapses, and fear of death as the principal stressors that affect the well-being of children with cancer. As...

The paper describes detailed data observation for the analysis and comprehension of the actual barriers and improvements that already exist in the world of physiotherapy rehabilitation and how, with the use of applied technologies as (UI) user interface, series of screens, pages, and visual elements, (UX) design process whose sole objective is to d...

Depression is often said to result from a chemical imbalance, but that speech figure does not capture how complicated this disease is. Researchers have learned much about the biology of depression, identifying genes that make individuals more vulnerable to low moods and influence how they respond to drug therapy [1]. Even though there are several w...

In Mexico, processed foods usually contain critical nutrients and ingredients that represent a risk to consumer health, which is why, on October 1, 2020, modifications were made to the Official Mexican Standard NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-20101, which aims to provide the final consumer with commercial and health information on caffeine content, excess satura...

In this paper it has been tried to proof that by the design of a user centered quick diabetes urine detector, the number of potentially risked number of diabetes patients could be considerably reduce, first by showing the need for new solutions for the diabetes detection problem in Mexico and exposing the current statistics, then a hypothesis to co...

Labor is a complex process in which one of the main factors within the hospital’s context is the medical equipment that helps to carry out the work, such as the birthing bed. Is around it that the activities that allow an efficient labor are carry out. There are two main approaches when it comes to medical design, known as EBD (Evidence-Based Desig...

The objective of this study is to demonstrate the innovation and design process of a birthing bed, designed specifically for young first mothers [1]. This problem was chosen due to the social and cultural conditions nowadays in Mexico, which, according to data from the INEGI, National Institute of Geography and Statistics, around 32 million women o...

The objective of this document is to show the development of the design of a portable birthing stretcher that facilitates the process of birthing in the indigenous communities of Mexico, to both the midwives and the mothers since the current conditions of birthing in the aforementioned place is insufficient to make it a safe and a comfortable deliv...

The design process for a birthing bed in search of incrementing the satisfaction of every user involved during delivery. Our design proposal seeks adequate participation of them during the delivery. The users considered in this study are the mother, the companion, the gynecologist/obstetrician, the pediatrician, the anesthesiologist, the birth nurs...

In Mexico, Jalisco has developed along four decades an important infrastructure to initially manufacture electronic components, and over time, being able to transition to a design sector in a joint effort between government, electronics industry and universities. As a result, product design should be included to deliver complete consumer electronic...

Estimates that around 10% of the world’s population, some 650 million people have some disability. Studies indicate that about 10% of these people need a wheelchair to move. Therefore, estimates that 1% of the total population requires a wheelchair, about 65 million people worldwide. Calculations by the UN show that 80% of that amount lives in deve...

This work will focus on improving the design that currently has medical documents, specifically results of blood chemistry used in Mexico, which are not designed to be understood by the different users who really interact with this product. It is important to propose a taxonomy of the different users that interact with the documents that correspond...

Analysis of hierarchical tasks in the hospital on the delivery phase, Users who interact with a delivery bed, to understand the usability of the object and the patterns of use, to identify possible improvements for the future bed design process. This paper argues that the use of the delivery bed requires further study of the number of users, their...

Over the years, there has been an increased severity and complexity of mental health problems among college students all over the world, emphasizing in Mexico and China. The focus of this research is to investigate the mental health of Chinese and Mexican students through a nationwide sample. The researchers employed secondary data analysis, data f...

The process of innovation in the design of medical devices is complex. The analysis of the user, the disease stage of the patient and the fact that all clinical histories are different generates a series of variables that are a challenge for any Medical Device designer. The traditional industrial design uses frameworks to control information and vi...

Imagine being able to connect to the work network from a public park and then meet a friend for coffee or shopping. Imagine finding everything a tourist needs, such as bus schedules, nearby restaurants and other entertainment options in touch screen kiosks conveniently located throughout the city. Most applications of IoT depend on a battery for th...

Author Index A Aceves-Gonzalez, Carlos, 175, 227 Al-Kasasbeh, Riad Taha, 156 Altyn, Aikeyeva, 156 Arnold, Timothy, 3, 209 Avera, Angie, 89 Delgado, Maria João Lima, 107 Duke, Tyler, 89 E Ene, Alexandra, 254 B Barton, Laura, 77 Berti, Zavier, 77 Bian, Ze, 291 Birrer, Edith, 270 Bolliger, Daniel, 270 Brandl, Christopher, 77 Bröhl, Christina, 77 F Fal...

In Mexico, wheelchair users face discrimination and attacks on their dignity. To improve this situation, products that consider the needs of the whole population, while highlighting those of vulnerable groups, need to be developed. Nevertheless, little efforts have been made to acknowledge how vulnerable Mexican users and wheelchair assistants perc...

In the first phase of the project, it was reported in a previous conference communication, the manufacture of two low-cost wheelchairs developed under this platform, both proposals designed in European countries (Spain and Italy). Following the constructive drawings and instructions available on the open-source platforms, both chairs were manufactu...

El agua fue lo que hizo posible la vida sobre la Tierra. Los científicos nos dicen que el origen de este recurso es antiguo casi como el planeta 4,000 millones de años (Nieri, 2015). Algunos meteoritos llegaron a impactarse contra la superficie del planeta modificando en parte la composición químico-física del mismo, dando origen a fenómenos como l...

Medical devices are one of the most complex design processes. The number of users that need to be considered is bigger than in other consumer products. The importance of implementing a hierarchy of users during the design process. Most importantly, this hierarchy varies depending on the stage of the disease

For the World Health Organization (WHO), breast cancer is the most frequent and increasing in women in both developed and developing countries. Through the studies of the American Cancer Society it can be observed that lymphedema is produced by: Surgery, Radiation, Cancer, Infections. If the remaining lymphatic vessels can not capture enough fluid...

As part of the “Program for Economy Promotion and Employment in Central America”, sponsored by German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GIZ), a new mechanism has been created to contribute to the goal of strengthening the competitiveness of micro, small and medium enterprises (SME) in Central America. The first phase of the program (2013–2015) was...

The absence of industrial designers in the design of medical devices, which are currently designed mostly by engineers and/or professionals with less study in the human centered design methodologies, as well as the rigorous regulations that govern the design of medical products, have diminished the importance of implementing a hierarchy of users du...

When we talk about inclusive design we are trigger a life style aspiration of unification and shared responsibility. This can foster the concept of facilitating people to operate in extraordinary environments and special people to work in ordinary ones. The design areas, which define the structure of this work, are Inclusive Design, Universal Desig...

Mexico has a great variety of wood species which have been undervalued and significantly exploited. Currently, some of the forests are exploited to create firewood, charcoal or products of low commercial cost, which causes a sale at a very low cost. Nevertheless, there are many timber and non-timber products which can be used for different industri...

Case study, students of the engineering career and product innovation of the panamerican university, develop products made of wood with the requirement to use electronics for their main function In recent years, globalization has been the central element of change in the world economy, marked by the tendency to form commercial blocks where free com...

Create a design that tackles a social issue and incorporates one type of wood as the main material and as part of the value proposition.

There are different elements involved in the product purchase; among them, there are the subjective ones, such as satisfaction (usability) and other ergonomic factors (shape, color, maintenance, security, interaction, materials, function and durability), which are involved in the first evaluation, even if the user is not in contact with the product...

The present invention refers to an improved system for fastening buttons to garments or accessories, the invention mainly referring to a fastening hook made out of a flexible materialthat is useful for attaching different accessories of a flexible material, as well as fastening buttons to textiles or garments, which is self actuated without further...