Trained in design research at the Royal College of Art, London, I am interested in research into design practice in healthcare and developing ethically responsible practices in design. On this page, you will find links to my academic publications, conference presentations and lectures
Current projects include research on accessibility of indoor spaces for the visually impaired with IIT Delhi, funded by WHO, and continuing on-going research on eco-design for medical devices. Do reach out if you are interested in collaborating on research in these areas.
Arun Kumar, P. (2020). Design for Sustainable Healthcare – Making sense of wicked-wicked problems [Video]. Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto Nov. 2020. Retrieved from: https://vimeo.com/548603163
Upadhyay, V., Arun Kumar, P., Singh, P., Ayush, Sharma, S., Paldas, S., Rao, P. V. M., Balakrishnan, M. (2021). Retrofit Framework for Indoor Mobility in Unstructured Spaces. Workshop Paper in CHI 2021, Yokohama, Japan. https://cdn.disabilityinnovation.com/documents/CHI-Workshop_submission_10.pdf?mtime=20210325101720&focal=none
Arun Kumar P., Wang S.J. (2021). The Design Intervention Opportunities to Reduce Procedural-Caused Healthcare Waste Under the Industry 4.0 Context – A Scoping Review. In: Brooks A., Brooks E.I., Jonathan D. (eds) Interactivity and Game Creation. ArtsIT 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 367. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73426-8_27
Arun Kumar, P. (2020). EcoDesign for medical devices: Barriers and opportunities to eco effective design of medical devices, (MPhil thesis) Royal College of Art, London, UK. Retrieved from https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/4467
Kumar, P. A., & Wang, S. J. (2019). Encouraging DfE in Design Education to promote Sustainable Medical Product Design. Designing Sustainability for All, 4, 1354–1359. http://lensconference3.org/index.php/program/posters/item/79-encouraging-dfe-in-design-education-to-promote-sustainable-medical-product-design
Laroia, M., Kumar, P. A., Minz, M., Khateeb, B., & Nahar, P. (2019). A case study on Access to Electricity Decentralized People-Centric Energy Model for India. Catalogue of the RSD7 Exhibition, 67–68. https://systemic-design.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RSD7Exhibition_VisualizingComplexSystems.pdf, [poster]
Arun Kumar, P., Sridhar, S., Chaturvedi, J., & Deshpande, R. P. (2017). Identification of unmet clinical needs in the field of nephrology – A modified bio-design approach. Medical Devices and Diagnostic Engineering, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.15761/MDDE.1000115
Kumar, P. A. (2014). Insulin Management System for Diabetic Patients. Proceedings of the India HCI 2014 Conference on Human Computer Interaction – IHCI ’14, 102–107. https://doi.org/10.1145/2676702.2676720, [poster], [paper]
