Digital Crowdsourcing in Healthcare Environment Co-design

Improving user experiences of healthcare environments via their participation has become a central theme in healthcare studies and strategic agendas. The co-design approach is often utilized to take into account opinions from different stakeholders including hospital staff. However, there are a number of competing stimuli and demands on staff at any point in time potentially making it difficult for them to participate in the co-design processes. Digital crowdsourcing may engage staff in participating in the design and appraisal of hospital environments when they have a spare moment by collecting small amounts of relevant data. In order to explore this, we have implemented a digital crowdsourcing co-design prototype. As users’ perceived acceptance of technologies is among the determining factors for a successful digital approach, in this paper, we report on participants’ acceptance of the prototype, aiming to reflect if and to what extend they accept this prototype to aid further development.