All Outputs (19)

Evaluation of technologies and products for psychosocial intervention and support for and with people living with dementia (2024)
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This chapter covers various techniques and methods used to evaluate designs produced collaboratively in the ‘Designing for people with Dementia’ (MinD) programme (MinD, 2023). It extends these by consideration of a broader set of tools for formative... Read More about Evaluation of technologies and products for psychosocial intervention and support for and with people living with dementia.

Exploring User Opinion on the Benefits of Cognitive Games Through an Online Walkthrough and Interview (2021)
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Online walkthrough interviews were conducted via internet video-calling, which formed part of wider Patient and Public Involvement activities investigating perceptions of digital and gamified cognitive assessment and training/coaching applications. P... Read More about Exploring User Opinion on the Benefits of Cognitive Games Through an Online Walkthrough and Interview.

Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design (2020)
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This chapter outlines the co-design process for ‘Let’s meet up!’, a hybrid electronic system, which combines traditional board games and digital features, created to facilitate and maintain social engagement for people living with dementia. It allows... Read More about Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design.

Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the co-design process for ‘Let’s meet up!’, a hybrid electronic system, which combines traditional board games and digital features, created to facilitate and maintain social engagement for people living with dementia. It allows... Read More about Working with Experts with Experience: Charting Co-production and Co-design in the Development of HCI-Based Design.

Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health (2020)
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User-centred evaluation of brain-training and coaching applications is discussed, with a focus on dementia. A brief outline of outcomes measures used for cognitive training is presented. The design of a set of four patient and public involvement work... Read More about Exploring User Expectations of Brain-Training and Coaching Technologies for Cognitive Health.

Gesture, Signing and Tracking (2017)
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There is a wide and growing range of physical input devices for (or integrated into) PCs, mobile phones, games consoles, or other devices that depend on tracking bodily gestures, which promise to make computing, environmental control, and mobility mo... Read More about Gesture, Signing and Tracking.

Gesture, signing, and tracking (2017)
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Human factors multi-technique approach to teenage engagement in digital technologies health research (2016)
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This chapter explores the use of multi-techniques for teenage HCI health research. Through four case studies we present information about adolescents as users of healthcare services and technologies, adolescent personal development and the human fact... Read More about Human factors multi-technique approach to teenage engagement in digital technologies health research.

Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment (2016)
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This chapter presents an overview of HTA methods aiming to inform the research and development of new medical devices, here defined as early stage HTA methods. First, standard HTA methods are briefly introduced and their limits and weaknesses are dis... Read More about Early stage Healthcare Technology Assessment.

Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations (2014)
Book Chapter

The authors have been involved with developing a number of mHealth smartphone Apps for use in health or wellness research in collaboration with researchers, clinicians and patient groups for clinical areas including Sickle Cell Disease, Attention Def... Read More about Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations.

User requirements for image-guided navigation in spinal surgery (2013)
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Advances in image-guided technology have resulted in a number of technologies to support surgeons in the identification of tissue and the tracking and navigation of surgical instruments in spinal surgery. There are various existing and proposed syste... Read More about User requirements for image-guided navigation in spinal surgery.

Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience (2013)
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Early stage Health Technology Assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices requires different methods than those usually employed for pharmaceuticals. This paper reviews widely used methods for HTA, discusses their limits for early stage evaluation of biom... Read More about Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience.

The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research (2012)
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Improving healthcare requires engaging with clinicians and patients in order to better understand their needs and expectations. Research methods that are used to conduct healthcare research are selected on the basis of study objectives and practicali... Read More about The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research.

MATCH: a new industry-focused approach to medical device development (2005)
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MATCH (Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare) is a new collaboration in the UK that aims to support the healthcare sector by creating methods to assess the value of medical devices from concept through to mature product. A... Read More about MATCH: a new industry-focused approach to medical device development.

MATCH: a multidisciplinary approach to the advancement of Health Technology Assessment (2004)
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GesRec3D: a real-time coded gesture-to-speech system with automatic segmentation and recognition thresholding using dissimilarity measures (2004)
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A complete microcomputer system is described, GesRec3D, which facilitates the data acquisition, segmentation, learning, and recognition of 3-Dimensional arm gestures, with application as a Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) aid for peop... Read More about GesRec3D: a real-time coded gesture-to-speech system with automatic segmentation and recognition thresholding using dissimilarity measures.

Enhanced computer modelling for high temperature microwave processing of ceramic materials (1996)
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From SnappyApp to Screens in the Wild: gamifying an Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder continuous performance test for public engagement and awareness
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that is characterised by three core behaviours: inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. It is typically thought that around 3-5% of school aged children have ADHD,... Read More about From SnappyApp to Screens in the Wild: gamifying an Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder continuous performance test for public engagement and awareness.

Routes and requirements for realizing pervasive medical devices
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