Explore the hard truths of in-home medical device ethnographies: getting in the door, navigating consent in real households, managing micro-ethics in the moment, and what it takes to surface the workarounds that structured usability testing never will.
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Jim Kershner
Partner
Jim has 20+ years of medical device product development experience, ranging from orthopedic implants and surgical instruments, to endovascular products, to drug delivery systems. Jim conducts and manages both UX and human factors projects in the healthcare space. Jim has a BS in Physics from Appalachian State University and an MEngSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of New South Wales.
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