Case Study Archives
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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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KTP project success for Prof Feng Li and Business and Decisions Ltd
This is a KTP between Professor Feng Li and IT consulting company Business & Decisions (B&D) Ltd, to research the technological and business directions of Case Management software in public and industry sector organisations and to produce and implement a sustainable long-term business strategy.
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TOPS: New Technologies to Support Older People at Home: Maximising Personal and Social interaction
The role of new technologies in health and social care for older people is attracting increasing interest as part of government agendas for modernising public services across the UK.
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Access Framework
Modern computers have vastly more functionality than any single individual will make use of in their day to day life. User interface designers have to balance the needs of usability against efficiency.
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Social care policy and digital technologies
The Society Perspective is developing a suite of work focusing on caring practices at home and in communities. In light of the developments in social care policy towards at home and close to home care; personal budgets in social care; and the social and digital inclusion of older people; we consider how digital technologies might support people to stay at home for longer, and improve the care experience.
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SiDE message reaches global audience
SiDE deliver talks to global audience
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The SiDE user panel
User Panels contribute to the formulation of SiDE research strategy, the design and delivery of research activities and the evaluation of research outputs, ensuring that all outputs are tangible, meaningful and usable
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Privacy In Mobile Phones
Mobile phones are pervasive in our everyday lives. Increasingly, such devices are gathering, storing, processing and communicating personal, and often sensitive information to facilitate a wide range of assistive tasks, such as route navigation.
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In-vehicle navigation systems and older drivers
The aim of this research is to investigate how in-vehicle navigation systems should be improved to make them more appropriate to the needs of older drivers, and whether these changes could enable older drivers to drive safely for longer.
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In-Vehicle System for Older Drivers
Studies of individual developed countries in Europe, Asia and North America document that older drivers do not represent an excessive risk or a threat to other road users.
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An eScience Infrastructure For Monitoring Older Drivers
To further explore driving behaviour and the vulnerability of older drivers as road users we will need to monitor moving vehicles.
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Position papers
The business perspective is developing three positioning papers in collaboration with SiDE activity researchers.
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Future Options Pack
SiDE is collaborating on a project initiated by the young people of the Regional Youth Work Unit’s Youth Advisory Board.
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Surfaces, tabletops and digital easels
SiDE has particular expertise in the design and development of interactive surfaces and tabletops.
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The Lovers’ Box
SiDE is seeking to achieve a deeper understanding of the potential of digital technologies.
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Sensors & activity recognition
A fundamental challenge for much of the “Connected Home and Communities” activity on SiDE is reasoning about what people are doing at any moment in time. SiDE is producing a suite of open source hardware and software for activity recognition that both underpins our own research and lowers barriers for other researchers around the world.
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Personhood in dementia
This is a collection of pieces addressing the possible preservation of aspects of self identity.
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My Great North Run
Two important research topics for SiDE are the development of design methods for older people
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Swallowing in Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurological condition, affecting one person in every 500.
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Cognitive modelling
A goal of SiDE is to improve the design of user interfaces for older people. A collaboration between SiDE, Carnegie Mellon University, and the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York
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Adaptive Interfaces
Exploring techniques to create more accessible software applications based on shared user modelling and adaptive interface design.
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Ambient Kitchen
Our work is based on the groundbreaking studies of Wherton and Monk into the views and capabilities of people with dementia.
