SIDE - Case Studies

Reminiscence room

Researchers from SiDE's Connected Community activity have been working with an adult mental health and learning disability development unit where many of the patients have chronic dementia. Building on dementia research in the Personhood project they have developed a digital artwork that enlivens the 'quiet room' and provides interactive reminiscence for clients living in the unit Read More

Music Workshops

SiDE has been working with Generator on their Urban Music Training programme. Read More
date: 05.11.2010

Reminiscence room

Researchers from SiDE's Connected Community activity have been working with an adult mental health and learning disability development unit where many of the patients have chronic dementia. Read More
date: 28.06.2011

SiDE Driving Lab

The SIDE transport team have now specified the telematics equipment that will be developed for the SIDE Driving Lab). Read More
date: 11.04.2011

Portrait

Portrait addresses the needs of the growing population of people in care homes and takes a novel approach by focusing on care givers, addressing the need to facilitate conversations between care staff and residents. Read More
date: 11.11.2011

  • Craftcube - CraftCube houses a collection of pieces that reveal a trajectory of digital jewellery research into memory and memory loss designed by Jayne Wallace. The selected works are reflective pieces based on source material gathered from care staff at Alzheimer’s Society day care centres and people living with memory loss as well as in-depth co-creative research with an individual living with dementia.

  • New Approaches to Banking for the Older Old - Researchers from the SiDE project are working in collaboration with experts from the University of York and Northumbria University to develop novel banking tools which afford older people to remain part of an ever increasing digital banking world. In collaboration with Barclay’s bank, Age UK and Zopa researcher’s have been investigating the behaviour of a group of ‘older old’ adults, those aged 80 or over, in relation to their banking practices seeking to provide more inclusive solutions for those who have become excluded from digital banking processes. 

  • Connected Communities Scoping study - Society Perspective (SP) researchers, Graeme Mearns and Ranald Richardson, together with colleagues from the Creative Media team, are currently carrying out a cross-disciplinary scoping study.

  • Sage Silver Ambassadors - SiDE Society strand researchers Ranald Richardson and Angela Abbott, with Suzanne Moffatt from the Institute of Health, and Silver Ambassadors from the Sage, Gateshead are conducting research into music and wellbeing among older people.

  • A Good Death - SiDE Society strand researchers, Angela Abbott and Ranald Richardson, are conducting research into what it might mean to support what has been termed ‘A Good Death’ at home.

  • Electronic footprints in the sand - Work led by SiDE CoInvestigator Aad van Moorsel is exploring the need for privacy in Internet-based social support systems.

  • User Managed Access - Aad van Moorsel's work on User Managed Access (UMA) will help protect vulnerable users against the misuse of sensitive data such as employment history, health or educational records.

  • e-Science Central - Science-as-a-Service platform that combines three emerging technologies — Software as a Service, Social Networking and Cloud Computing.

  • Regional Transport Smart card - The POP card - In January 2009, Prof Phil Blythe chaired a workshop at The Stadium of Light in Sunderland which launched the concept of NESTI (North East Smart Ticketing Initiative).

  • Impacts of cessation of driving - Chris Emmerson will undertake a major survey of older drivers using the SIDE User Pools coordinated by Dundee and Newcastle.

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