Rate My Professor Daphne Flynn

Flynn's research focuses on design for health, design innovation, industrial design, human-centred design, co-design, co-creation, and participatory design. She supervises PhD projects on healthcare experience, future hospital, virtual care, health communication, and design for behavioural change. As Chief Investigator, she leads projects such as Paradigm: Rugged X-ray CT Scanner for Mobile Care Delivery (2025-2026), ARC Training Centre for Optimal Ageing (2023-2028), Self-service airport security checkpoint (2021-2026), and Asia-Pacific resilient hospitals and health facilities initiative (2024-2025). Key contributions include designing the award-winning asthma prediction device X-halo and Philips' Hospital-to-Home healthcare pilot. Recent publications include "Exploring the Nutrition Care Journey of People Living With Obesity in Acute Care" (Elliott et al., 2025, Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics), "Understanding and integrating the needs and preferences of people living with dementia in the inpatient setting: a qualitative study" (Lennox et al., 2025, BMC Geriatrics), "Reimagining patient-centered multimedia distraction strategies in the emergency department" (Macpherson et al., 2024), and "Security Self-Screening: A Passenger-Focused Approach" (Thiessen et al., 2024). Through Design Health Collab, Flynn promotes collaborations among researchers, industry, and medical bodies to innovate in healthcare using design thinking, improving medtech usability and patient experiences.