Karim Ladha

About: Karim Ladha

My work focuses on producing devices and hardware support the research of other achademics. I also actively search for new emerging technologies that can be such as low power wireless, micro electromechanical sensors and ultra low power microcontrollers. My role is not strictly an academic one, instead I assist fellow academics reach their goals through my practical knowledge of electronics and product design. My work has so far fulfilled several of the business vouchers and helped many of the projects within the group as well as generated commercially viable ‘state of the art’ monitoring devices.

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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    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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    Activity Recognition to Improve Motor Performance in Parkinson's

    In this project we aim to develop a method that can be used to assess one of the properties of motor skill: the efficiency of motion.  This will have application in degenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia which have a signif...
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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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    Can Cueing Improve Swallowing and Prevent Drooling in Parkinson's Disease?

    A significant symptom mentioned by many people with Parkinson's Disease concerns drooling. It is believed that drooling is associated with ‘swallowing dysfunction due to muscle rigidity and bradykinesia, or slowness of movement, of the oral-pharyngea...
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    Personhood in Dementia

    Part of the Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy (SiDE) project.This body of work focuses on the maintenance of self-identity in dementia.Jewellery has an inherent connection to the body and is valued as a special site for objects and as such a...
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    Ambient Kitchen

    The Ambient Kitchen is one of Culture Lab's ongoing projects to examine the ways which smart environments can assist older adults or people with cognitive impairments.   The kitchen includes a host of  different sensing technologies which combine th...
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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...