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- Design process of a constant epilepsy monitoring wearable devicePublication . Morgado, Mafalda Pesqueira; Ayanoglu, Hande; Montagna, GianniEpilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions, affecting over 70 million individuals worldwide, with life-long neurobiological, psychological, psychiatric, physical, and social consequences, and associated with higher risks of mortality and developing commodities. Monitoring aids in diagnosis, seizure characterization, and treatment planning, enhancing patient safety and quality of life. Wearable devices with healthcare applications present as a solution for continuous, every day, monitoring with little impact to patients' lives, a technological advancement, including textile-based solutions, represent new opportunities for developing comfortable, non-intrusive, non-obstructive, and non stigmatizing wearable products for PWE. Given the extended use of this kind of monitoring wearable, user experience is particularly pivotal in its development; thus, this work focused on a user-centric process of conceptualizing a wearable for epilepsy monitoring, by considering both the user experience and expert feedback. In this sense, the main objective of the research is to explore a user-centric development process of an epilepsy monitoring wearable device. The research followed a double diamond methodology in each of the four stages of projects development, during which we explored the process of conceptualizing, defining and evaluating an epilepsy monitoring wearable product, through the insights and finding of experts and epilepsy patients. As a conclusion, an introduction to a new complementing avenue of development was also provided, concerning a smartphone app, which would pair with the proposed wearable device. While this project was limited by time and resource constraint, limited access to patients with epilepsy, and inability to apply techniques in prototyping which are only available in industrialized processes, this research and collected insights throughout the development process contribute to the area of design for health and wellbeing as well as future developments of design of medical wearable devices for epilepsy monitoring.