Projects
The Creative Exchange
The Creative Exchange (CX) is a Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). We aim to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen a...
Enabling Simple Public Voting and Consultation in Local Communities
This project builds on the Bespoke project, which resulted in the deployment Viewpoint, a public voting device inspired by difficulties encountered when attempting to encourage residents in a Preston estate to voice their opinions. Many residents did ...Nick Taylor, January 4, 2012
TRUMP: A Trusted Platform for the Self - management of Chronic Illness
Chronic diseases are now the leading causes of death in both developing and developed countries. Such conditions include diabetes, asthma, arthritis, heart failure, COPD, dementia and a range of disabling psychological conditions such as depression. In...Patrick Olivier, December 30, 2011
.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.Tom Bartindale, Jonathan Hook, Cassim Ladha, Patrick Olivier, Abigail Durrant, Dan Jackson, Rachel Clarke, Karim Ladha, November 1, 2011
User-centred Healthcare Design (UCHD)
UCHD is a type of co-design, because we work alongside service users and providers to understand their experiences and stories and, together, find ways to improve things. UCHD is also the name of the team of researchers, designers and healthcare profes...Peter Wright, August 30, 2011
Ageing in Place...
Ageing in Place and the Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Lives of Older People.Demographic ageing has raised many issues for policy and practice, particularly in terms of how society should best support and care for the ageing population. Governm...Patrick Olivier, August 30, 2011
UXCodes: Decoding User Experience Qualities
Decoding User Experience Qualities with and through Technology over Time. User Experience (UX) is a complex, but promising concept in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This Marie Curie project aims to identify the key UXCodes, in particul...
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...
Digital Originals (EPSRC)
The ease with which digital files can be copied and shared presents profound challenges for the creative industries. This project seeks to explore alternative business models for the dissemination of digital content and takes art as a case from which t...Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier, August 30, 2011
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...
SMART2: Self-management and Rehabiliation Technologies
Chronic health conditions are those that a person has over an extended period of time, or for life. Current medical thinking encourages health professionals to work in partnership with people with long term conditions, so that the individual is in cont...Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier, August 26, 2011
SALT: Designing Scalable Assistive Technologies and Services
This project brings together a strong consortium of academics, businesses, health and social care professionals, third sector organisations and user representatives to address challenges and opportunities in both economic and business models to develop...
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...Roisin McNaney, Karim Ladha, Thomas Ploetz, Nils Hammerla, Dan Jackson, Patrick Olivier, August 26, 2011
NERVE: North East Regional Visualisation Enviroment (complete)
Real-time Visualisation of a Shared Geo-spatial ModelThe primary objective of this project is to carry out the basic research that will allow a single shared interactive digital model of the built environment in any geographic region to be created and ...Administrator, August 26, 2011
Contested Common Land
The research project will place the sustainable management of Commons in historical perspective by using four case studies to illustrate the changing patterns of land use, differing management principles and regulatory mechanisms applied to common land...Dan Jackson, Patrick Olivier, August 26, 2011
AMUC: Asscocitaed motion capture user categories
Performing arts use motion capture tools for activities ranging from live, staged productions to creative screen-bound works, choreographic notation and archiving. These activities have shaped original interdisciplinary platforms combining artistic per...
Persuasive Dialogue
Since face-to-face communication is a highly efficient means of interaction, embodied conversation agents (virtual humans with speech and natural language capabilities) are a promising technology by which to realise user dialogues with computers. Indee...John Shearer, Patrick Olivier, August 25, 2011
Vidipedia: Community Indexing for Audiovisual Material
Releasing the hidden value contained in the tens of millions of hours of the world’s media archives is dependent on the widespread of these collections in order to facilitate access. However, archive owners are reluctant to commit to the costs of dig...Dan Jackson, Patrick Olivier, August 25, 2011
Livewell: Lifestyle Interventions
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...Patrick Olivier, Jack Weeden, August 25, 2011
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...Gavin Wood, Dan Jackson, Cassim Ladha, Jayne Wallace, Patrick Olivier, Abigail Durrant, August 25, 2011
Language Learning in the Wild
This project aims to develop the next generation of technology applied to language teaching, namely the use of digital sensors together with a Task-Based Learning approach. Specifically, togethor with the Digital Institute we will build a digital kit...
MappMal: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prevention of Malnutrition
The aim of this project is to address the problem on malnutrition in older patients by exploiting new and existing technologies. The project will first map out current practice in hospitals for provision of food to older patients and identify oppo...
IRIS: Integrated Research in Interactive Storytelling
This projects aim is to improve Interactive Storytelling Technologies and their effectiveness in supporting narration. It is organised around four major objectives: 1) To extend Interactive Storytelling Technologies in terms of performance and scala...
Balance@Home
The aim of Balance@Home is to help European citizens to obtain consumer solutions for a hassle-free guidance towards balanced lifestyle with respect to meal planning, meal preparation and personal choice. The project explores methods for inferring eati...
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 ...Thomas Ploetz, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Dan Jackson, Cassim Ladha, Karim Ladha, Christian Kray, Patrick Olivier, August 24, 2011
ACCEL-O-SURG (accelerometers for surgical training)
In this study we aim to understand the changes in motor skill that take place during the early phases of learning a new fine motor skill task. The motor skill we will be measuring is suturing. We will attach sensors to the surgical suturing instruments...
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...Anja Thieme, Jayne Wallace, Olga Pykhtina, Karim Ladha, Cassim Ladha, Gavin Wood, Dan Jackson, Nils Hammerla, Thomas Ploetz, Patrick Olivier, Abigail Durrant, August 23, 2011
VERITAS
Virtual and Augmented Environments and Realistic User Interactions to Achieve Embedded Accessibility DesignsThe VERITAS project’s main goal is to develop an open framework for developing technologies which are being systematically designed for all pe...
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...Paul Dunphy, Cassim Ladha, Karim Ladha, Stephen Lindsay, Patrick Olivier, John Vines, August 11, 2011
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...Roisin McNaney, Dan Jackson, Karim Ladha, Nils Hammerla, Patrick Olivier, Stephen Lindsay, October 7, 2010
AEGIS
Assisting the Elderly and Disabled Generation using a Behavior Modelling Intelligent System The AEGIS project seeks to determine whether 3rd generation access techniques will provide a more accessible, more exploitable and deeply embeddable approach i...Stephen Lindsay, Patrick Olivier, September 29, 2010
KITE: Keeping in touch every day
The KITE project looks into the ways in which older people with dementia can be supported in walking safely outside of the home. The project used Participatory Design techniques to involve potential users and found that the biggest barrier to the car...
My Great North Run
‘My Great North Run’ is a multimodal museum installation and connected website that archives stories, photographs and drawings from the last thirty years of the Great North Run.
OASIS
Open Architecture for Accessible Services Integration and StandardisationOASIS introduces an ontology-driven, open reference architecture and platform, which will enable and facilitate interoperability, seamless connectivity and sharing of content betw...
Bespoke: Increasing Social Inclusion through Community Journalism and Bespoke Design
Many people in the UK are currently excluded from the benefits of digital technologies and the connections to other people, businesses and groups that these provide. These technologies are not affordable by the poor and not usable by many older or disa...