Connected Community - Related Projects
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KTA: Accel- o-surg
"Accel-o-surg": Application of accelerometry to surgical motor skill assessment and learning.
KTA Project
The goal of this project is to apply our existing low-cost wireless sensors and activity recognition platform to the development of a low cost personal training system for both acquisition and assessment of surgical motor skills. Our proposed approach is to embed our miniature wireless accelerometers into the standard surgical instruments and log trainee/medical students manipulation of these instruments as they use them in standard exercises (e.g. suturing and making incisions on blank material).
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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Banking for the Older Old
Banking for the Older Old
(EPSRC)
SiDE Co-Is: Patrick Olivier and Feng Li Funder: EPSRC Financial exclusion is recognised as a problem in many demographic groups, there are for example some 3 million "unbanked" in the UK. This project will focus on one such group the current cohort of older old.
Contacts: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)/ Feng-Li (feng.li@ncl.ac.uk)
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Embodied Selves in Transition: Disabled Young Bodies
Embodied Selves in Transition: Disabled Young Bodies
(EPSRC)
The project will explore the embodied selves of disabled young people. Its focus will be on how they create meaning from and via their bodies; how the body plays a role in their engagement with the social and material world; how embodiment is influenced by their social transition into adolescence; and how pain does and does not play a part in these processes.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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Language Learning in the wild
Language Learning in the wild
(EPSRC)
This project adapts the technology of our existing Ambient Kitchen for communication with people with dementia and adapts it to the field of language learning.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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Cueing for Swallowing in Parkinson's Disease
Cueing for Swallowing in Parkinson's Disease
(NIHR)
Exploring the development of a socially acceptable cueing device for drooling in Parkinsons disease (PD). Sialorrhea, or drooling, is a significant problem associated with PD and has a strong negative emotional impact on those who experience it. Previous studies have shown the potential for managing drooling by using a cueing device. However, the devices used in these studies were deemed unacceptable by their users due to factors such as hearing impairment and social embarrassment. The project is conducting scoping work and high fidelity iterative prototyping with people with PD to get their input on the design of a cueing aid and this has given us an insight into challenges that confront users with PD and limit device usability and acceptability.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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Livewell: Lifestyle interventions
Livewell: Lifestyle interventions
(MRC)
The increasing burden of frailty and chronic poor health currently accompanying longevity is a public health problem. The challenge to health researchers is to find ways of improving health and maintaining wellbeing throughout the life-course.LiveWell, a five year multidisciplinary research programme, aims to develop and pilot an integrated suite of well-founded, pragmatic interventions that are effective in promoting health and wellbeing in later life.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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AEGIS: Assisting the Elderly and disabled Generation using a Behaviour Modelling Intelligent System
AEGIS: Assisting the Elderly and disabled Generation using a Behaviour Modelling Intelligent System
(TSB)
AEGIS is a TSB Assistive Living project exploring the potential for remote monitoring technology to support the healthy older people live more independently. The work involves a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods from social gerontology and design and aims to establish the value of a new class of consumer product for independent living.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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VERITAS – Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions to achieve Embedded Accessibility Design
VERITAS – Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions to achieve Embedded Accessibility Design
(EU FP7)
VERITAS explores the development of tools to support the design of accessible interfaces for people with specific cognitive deficits, in particular, short-term memory and executive function.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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Multi-touch Interaction in the Great North Museum
Multi-touch Interaction in the Great North Museum
(One North East and Great North Museum)
Two important research topics for SiDE are the development of design methods for older people, and technologies that support and enhance intergenerational communication. We explored both these topics in the design and development of the My Great North Run installation which was part of the Great North Museum‟s summer exhibition In The Long Run. The installation captured and displayed stories about people‟s personal experiences of the Great North Run and received over 12,000 submissions from approximately 100,000 visitors.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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Balance@Home: Exploring home-based support systems for promotion of food, nutritional knowledge and personal choice
Balance@Home: Exploring home-based support systems for promotion of food, nutritional knowledge and personal choice
(EU FP7)
Combining work, social obligations and caring for a family in a balanced way has become an important worry of a growing group of European citizens. The project will help European citizens to obtain consumer solutions for a hassle-free guidance towards a balanced lifestyle. The project focuses on methods for inferring eating habits in an unobtrusive way and seeks to use this information to provide situated feedback on meal planning and preparation. Throughout all phases of the project a user-centered development (UCD) will be adopted. Since the project is targeting to change people's behaviour, it is seen as vital to take user needs as the starting point for technology development.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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OASIS
OASIS (EU FP7)
OASIS introduces an ontology-driven, open reference architecture and platform, which will enable and facilitate interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content between different services and ontologies in all application domains relevant to applications for the elderly.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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MappMal: Multidisciplinary Approach to Prototype for Prevention of Malnutrition in Older People
MappMal: Multidisciplinary Approach to Prototype for Prevention of Malnutrition in Older People
(ESRC)
The aim of the New Dynamics of Ageing MAPP-Mal project is to develop a new systems prototype for food provision to older patients to prevent malnutrition. The project will first map out current practice in hospitals for provision of food to older patients and identify opportunities for change. Then, with input from end users and stakeholders, a new food system will be devised that exploits new and existing technologies to consider: the food provided; the 'Food Journey'; the patient's eating environment; and monitoring food intake.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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Ageing in place' and the impact of emerging technologies on the lives of older people
Ageing in place' and the impact of emerging technologies on the lives of older people
(EPSRC - Discipline Hopping Award)
The award will support and enable Katie Brittan, a social gerontologist, to explore the relationship between assistive technologies, pervasive computing and place attachment for older people inside and outside of the home. Katie will develop her interest in social gerontology alongside technology development and the opportunity to access a broad base of disciplinary knowledge and expertise, both locally through SiDE research and internationally in the US.
Contact: Patrick Olivier (p.l.olivier@ncl.ac.uk)
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