Sense Sensitive Design - IBI Group

ibi group
sense sensitive design: health
hpod
Delivering the optimum environment to engage the senses
and enhance well-being and performance
Drawing on over a decade of research into sense-sensitive
design and deploying that information to unique effect,
the hPod will present the world with a groundbreaking
development in wellbeing.
the future
The pods were originally designed for the healthcare
market, to deliver the optimal healing environment for
the patient through light, smell, sound and vision. What
makes the pod unique is the manner in which it makes
use of the latest medical findings, combines these with
the possibilities offered by cutting edge technology and
allows the creation of individually prescribed healing
environments. Patients can be equipped with a smart card
storing their hPod prescription. When they enter the pod,
light settings, temperature, smell and audio and visual
stimulus will adjust to create their ideal surroundings.
Further work is being undertaken to investigate its use to
influence the nature of the learning environment improving
both staff and pupils wellbeing, development and learning
experience.
The pods also offer opportunities within the air travel
sector providing soothing environments to calm travellers
and combat the effects of jet lag.
The hPod will feature up to 16 healing environments, within
the following categories:
• Calming
• Energising
• Headache/migraine
• Seasonal Affective
Disorder
• Jetlag
• Breastfeeding
• Bipolar depression
• Neonatal
• Oncology
• Labour
• MRI/CAT
• Cardiac
• Intensive therapy
• Phlebotomy
• Burns
As well as promising to revolutionise healthcare design,
the hPod will have applications in a wide variety of sectors
such as hospitality, retail, sport, leisure and work place.