Cassim Ladha

About: Cassim Ladha

University qualifications: MEng Electronic Communication Engineering (Newcastle University) PhD Wireless Sensor Networks (Newcastle University) Biography: My background stems firmly from engineering however I currently sit as a Senior Research Associate (SRA) within Computing Science faculty. Currently my time is split over various projects all of which have an embedded or pervasive technology theme. My research interests predominantly lie within health and well being. Put simply this means I spend the majority of my time applying technologies or designing new technologies to improve peoples lives both physically and mentally. While some of this work is very practical, for example re-designing old medical technologies, other times it is quite exploratory and experimental. I find this variation in my role keeps me sane! Outside of the lab I enjoy spending my time outdoors and am a keen rock/ice climber and surfer. Personal Website
http://web.me.com/cassimladha/Site/Cas_Ladha/Home.html

Publications

2011

Cueing Swallowing in Parkinson’s Disease (2011) Roisin McNaney, Stephen Lindsay, Karim Ladha, Cassim Ladha, Guy Schofield, Thomas Ploetz, Nils Hammerla, Daniel Jackson, Richard Walker, Nick Miller, Patrick Olivier, Proc. ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Towards a Pervasive Kitchen Infrastructure for Measuring Cooking Competence (2011) Juergen Wagner, Thomas Ploetz, Aart van Halteren, Jetti Hoonhout, Paula Moynihan, Daniel Jackson, Cassim Ladha, Karim Ladha, Patrick Olivier, Proc. Int. Conf. Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

2010

TouchBridge: Augmenting Active Tangibles for Camera-based Multi-touch Surfaces (2010) Cassim Ladha, Karim Ladha, Jonathan Hook, Daniel Jackson, Patrick Olivier, Proceedings of ITS 7-10 November 2010, url

Associated Projects

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    .NET Gadgeteer

    In collaboration with Microsoft Research, we are developing and using .NET Gadgeteer in our own research, as well as running workshops, and developing new modules.
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    Sociometer

    Part of the Life-Long Health and Wellbeing Project The aims of this pilot study are to develop a truly novel, sensitive worn monitoring device that integrates direct measures both physical activity and social interaction, to use these measures to exam...
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    TouchBridge

    The TouchBridge project refers to an active tangible marker system for optical based multi-touch surfaces. Interactive surfaces have proved their utility in a range of applications consequently giving rise to a Tangible User Interface (TUI) that exploi...
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    ShoeMote: Shoe-based Monitoring of Gait & Mobility

    ShoeMOTE aims to develop  a shoe-based mobility assessment system that incorporates pressure piezoelectric pressure and bend sensors, accelerometers, and zigbee-mediated wireless communication between a mote-based device embedded into the heel of a re...
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    Life-Long Health and Wellbeing

    A monitoring device to objectively assess functional/ psychosocial impairment in older-age adults with major depression. Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders, with at least one in six adults meeting the criteria for a major depre...
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    Landscapes of Cross Generational Engagement

    This project is concerned with ways of enhancing people's experiences of growing older. It will investigate how interactive technologies can promote older people’s engagement with their physical and social environments, and encourage new forms of int...
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    Telematic Dinner Party

    A Telematic Dinner Party is a meal where two remote groups are brought together through the internet and video projections to share a meal at a table. For these dinners, each group of guests will be in two separate rooms and integrated on a single tabl...
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    Embodied Selves in Transition: Disabled Young

    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; and how embodiment is influ...
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    TEDDI: Building Management and Energy Demand

    This research project involves the design and development of a sensing infrastructure that consists of networked physical (e.g. presence sensors, power consumption sensors) and virtual sensors (e.g. calendar and room booking sensors, application usage ...
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    SiDE: Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy

    SiDE is an interdisciplinary research project aimed at realising the potential for digital technologies to transform the lives of people who are socially excluded. Poor health, disability, family breakdown, poverty and unemployment are just some of the...
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    New Approaches to Banking for the Older Old (EPSRC)

    At the time of the 2001 census there were 2.4m people aged 80 or more in the UK. Life expectancy at age 80 is now 9 years for men and 11 for women. In this age cohort there are those who both voluntarily and involuntarily exclude themselves from the fu...
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    OpenMovement

      Official OpenMovement site: OpenMovement is a collection of opensource hardware sensors and software tools for research use. The sensors all feature a MEMS triaxial accelerometer as a base sensor but also contain other sensors for context. Openm...
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    SiDE - Launch Photography

    See the SiDE Project entry on Digital Interaction website or See the SiDE Project website Photographs from the Digital Economy Research Hub Launch at the British Library: Paul Watson interviewed for TV [caption id="attachment_408" ali...