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Baxter
Senior Sponsor
Baxter touches the lives of millions of patients every day across acute, surgical, outpatient, and home care settings. Its products include smart bed systems, patient monitoring and diagnostic technologies, respiratory health devices, dialysis therapies, infusion systems, parenteral nutrition therapies, surgical hemostat and sealants, surgical equipment, and safe patient handling devices. These products are manufactured in over 20 countries and sold in over 100 countries.
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Core Human Factors
Senior Sponsor
Core Human Factors is a consulting group staffed by HF specialists with varied backgrounds including biomedical engineering, physical ergonomics, and experimental psychology. We specialize in HF testing for medical devices and conduct research worldwide. Core has helped hundreds of products successfully navigate FDA review and gain CE marks. We perform user testing, assist in the design of products, instructional materials, and training programs. We also offer participant recruiting and IRB.
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Design Science
Senior Sponsor
From making initial design decisions to preparing submissions for regulatory bodies, let Design Science’s team structure your research to get the answers you need. From discovering what users want and how well your product meets their needs to shaping your design direction early on (formative) to preparing for submission with a team that sits on regulatory committees to ensure that your documents comply with constantly evolving requirements and best practices (validation/summative).
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MedSimCenter
Senior Sponsor
MedSimCenter™ is a healthcare simulated-use research center located in central New Jersey 30 minutes west of Newark Airport. We have realistic environments to host your professional and consumer HF/UX studies - creating simulation setups to your specifications. We promise to reduce your fieldwork stress; taking care of the details: recruiting, props, supplies, audio/video recording and streaming. Take a look at some of our healthcare spaces at www.medsimcenter.com
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MedStar Health
Senior Sponsor
At MedStar Health, we use the best of our minds and the best of our hearts to serve our patients, those who care for them, and our communities. Our more than 32,000 associates are committed to advancing care based on our research and expertise and through living our SPIRIT values—Service, Patient first, Integrity, Respect, Innovation, and Teamwork. We offer easy access to great health care in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., via our 10 hospitals and more than 300 other care locations.
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Newell Brands
Senior Sponsor
Newell Brands is a leading consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands such as Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid® and Sharpie®, and 28,000 talented employees around the world. We aspire to delight consumers by lighting up everyday moments.
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Research Collective
Senior Sponsor
Research Collective is a team of Human Factors Engineers and Scientists dedicated to making medical products useful, usable, desirable, and most importantly, safe. By leveraging our team’s healthcare human factors expertise and extensive training, we help answer the questions clients care about, enabling them to make informed, confident decisions.
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DesignThink, Inc.
Junior Sponsor
DesignThink is a creative, full-service, product design and development consultancy. We develop exciting new products that are the result of deeply innovative, original thinking. We create fresh ways to deliver enjoyable user experiences and exciting new products while staying true to your brand. We are committed to developing products that enhance the relationship between you and your customer.
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End to End User Research
Junior Sponsor
End to End User Research offers a wide range of research services to help you understand and design for your end user. With services ranging from participant recruiting, UX research, facilities rental, contract services and more, our business is research, because research matters.
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Human Factors in Context
Junior Sponsor
Human Factors in Context offers user research, human factors, and physical/digital interface architecture. Founder, Keith Karn, has been steeped in user-centered design for 40 years. His most memorable work includes flying a supersonic jet, studying underground coal mining, and observing enteral feeding in Italian NICUs—all to fuel innovation. Before starting his consultancy, he led teams at Bresslergroup, Design Science, Xerox & Kodak. He holds both engineering degrees and a PhD in Psychology.
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Google
Junior Sponsor
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Loring Human Factors, Inc.
Junior Sponsor
Loring Human Factors is a consulting firm offering human factors and usability engineering services to clients across industries, specializing in healthcare and medical devices. Services include exploratory research, usability testing, ergonomics, UI/UX design, instructional design, regulatory advice, and training. Additional information can be found at www.loring-hf.com.
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UXD Consortium
Junior Sponsor
The User Experience Design Consortium is a diverse group of managers who are responsible for certain aspects of the UX associated with their company’s products or services. The purpose of the Consortium is the opportunity for professional development. Meetings have insights for effective team management and for learnings about new technologies, methodologies, processes and more. Membership is by invitation. To learn more, visit https://www.usabilityassociates.com/consortium.
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