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User requirements for the development of smartphone self-reporting applications in healthcare (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craven, M. P., Selvarajah, K., Miles, R., Schnädelbach, H., Massey, A., Vedhara, K., …Crowe, J. (2013). User requirements for the development of smartphone self-reporting applications in healthcare. In Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39262-7_5

Two case studies of the development of Smartphone self-reporting mHealth applications are described: a wellness diary for asthma management combined with Bluetooth pulse oximeter and manual peak flow measurements; and a questionnaire for ecological a... Read More about User requirements for the development of smartphone self-reporting applications in healthcare.

Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience (2013)
Book Chapter
Pecchia, L., & Craven, M. P. (2013). Early stage health technology assessment (HTA) of biomedical devices: the MATCH experience. In M. Long (Ed.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, May 26-31 2012, Beijing, China. Springer

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.

Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications? (2013)
Journal Article
Selvarajah, K., Craven, M. P., Massey, A., Crowe, J., Vedhara, K., & Raine-Fenning, N. (2013). Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8005, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39262-7_22

Smartphone applications (Apps) provide a new way to deliver healthcare, illustrated by the fact that healthcare Apps are estimated to make up over 30% of new Apps currently being developed; with this number seemingly set to increase as the benefits b... Read More about Native Apps versus Web Apps: which is best for healthcare applications?.

Medical device design in context: a model of user–device interaction and consequences (2012)
Journal Article
Sharples, S., Martin, J. L., Lang, A., Craven, M. P., O'Neil, S., & Barnett, J. (2012). Medical device design in context: a model of user–device interaction and consequences. Displays, 33(4-5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.displa.2011.12.001

The practice of evaluating interaction with devices is embedded in disciplines such as human-computer interaction and cognitive ergonomics, including concepts such as affordances, error analysis, skill, rule and knowledge based behaviour and decision... Read More about Medical device design in context: a model of user–device interaction and consequences.

Engaging with economic evaluation methods: insights from small and medium enterprises in the UK medical devices industry after training workshops (2012)
Journal Article
Craven, M. P., Allsop, M. J., Morgan, S. P., & Martin, J. L. (2012). Engaging with economic evaluation methods: insights from small and medium enterprises in the UK medical devices industry after training workshops. Health Research Policy and Systems, 10(29), https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4505-10-29

Background

With increased governmental interest in value assessment of technologies and where medical device manufacturers are finding it increasingly necessary to become more familiar with economic evaluation methods, the study sought to explore... Read More about Engaging with economic evaluation methods: insights from small and medium enterprises in the UK medical devices industry after training workshops.

The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research (2012)
Book Chapter
Keane, D., Lang, A. R., Craven, M. P., & Sharples, S. (2012). The use of vignettes for conducting healthcare research. In V. G. Duffy (Ed.), Advances in human aspects of healthcare. San Franciso, USA: CRC Press

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.

Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia? (2012)
Journal Article
Lu, B., Martin, J. L., Craven, M. P., & Morgan, S. P. (2012). Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia?. International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 11(1/2), https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTTC.2012.043911

Health economics is extensively used by reimbursement agencies to make decisions on whether to adopt new medical technologies. It is also used by the healthcare industry as an aid to decision making during product development. This paper proposes tha... Read More about Can health economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia?.

Surgeon opinion on new technologies in orthopaedic surgery (2011)
Journal Article
Craven, M. P., Martin, J. L., & Crowe, J. A. (2011). Surgeon opinion on new technologies in orthopaedic surgery. Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, 35(3-4), 139-148. https://doi.org/10.3109/03091902.2011.554596

Technological advances such as computer navigation systems and robotics, includingsupport systems for minimally invasive surgery, have the potential to revolutionise howorthopaedic surgery is carried out. However uptake has so far been limited. Incre... Read More about Surgeon opinion on new technologies in orthopaedic surgery.

The role of the user within the medical device design and development process: medical device manufacturers' perspectives (2011)
Journal Article
Money, A. G., Barnett, J., Kuljis, J., Craven, M. P., Martin, J. L., & Young, T. (2011). The role of the user within the medical device design and development process: medical device manufacturers' perspectives. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 11(15), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-11-15

Background

Academic literature and international standards bodies suggest that user involvement, via the incorporation of human factors engineering methods within the medical device design and development (MDDD) process, offer many benefits that e... Read More about The role of the user within the medical device design and development process: medical device manufacturers' perspectives.

Deploying a spreadsheet tool for early economic value assessment of medical device innovations with healthcare decision makers (2009)
Journal Article
Craven, M. P., Morgan, S. P., Crowe, J. A., & Lu, B. (2009). Deploying a spreadsheet tool for early economic value assessment of medical device innovations with healthcare decision makers. International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2(3), https://doi.org/10.1179/175330309791011055

Early stage evaluation of medical device innovations is important for healthcare decision-makers as much as for manufacturers, meaning that a wider application of a basic cost-effectiveness analysis is becoming necessary outside the usual expert base... Read More about Deploying a spreadsheet tool for early economic value assessment of medical device innovations with healthcare decision makers.

A high fidelity tissue-based cardiac surgical simulator (2005)
Journal Article
Ramphal, P. S., Coore, D. N., Craven, M. P., Forbes, N. F., Newman, S. M., Coye, A. A., …Silvera, B. C. (2005). A high fidelity tissue-based cardiac surgical simulator. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 27(5), 910-916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcts.2004.12.049

Issues concerning the training and certification of surgical specialists have taken on great significance in the last decade. A realistic computer-assisted, tissue-based simulator developed for use in the training of cardiac surgical residents in the... Read More about A high fidelity tissue-based cardiac surgical simulator.

MATCH: a new industry-focused approach to medical device development (2005)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. L., Craven, M. P., & Norris, B. J. (2005). MATCH: a new industry-focused approach to medical device development. In R. Tartaglia (Ed.), Healthcare systems ergonomics and patient safety: human factor, a bridge between care and cure : proceedings of the International Conference HEPS 2005, Florence, Italy, 30th March-2nd April 2005. Taylor & Francis

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.

GesRec3D: a real-time coded gesture-to-speech system with automatic segmentation and recognition thresholding using dissimilarity measures (2004)
Book Chapter
Craven, M. P., & Curtis, K. M. (2004). GesRec3D: a real-time coded gesture-to-speech system with automatic segmentation and recognition thresholding using dissimilarity measures. In A. Camurri, & G. Volpe (Eds.), Gesture-based communication in human-computer interaction: 5th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2003: Genova, Italy, April 2003: selected revised papers. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24598-8_21

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.

Using Action Research to Enhance Teaching and Learning at the University of Technology, Jamaica (2003)
Journal Article
George, N. A., Craven, M., Williams-Meyers, C., & Bonnick, P. (2003). Using Action Research to Enhance Teaching and Learning at the University of Technology, Jamaica. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 28(3), 239-250. doi:10.1080/0260293032000059603

As part of its quality assurance systems, the University of Technology, Jamaica initiated a project aimed at exploring how action research could be used as a vehicle for enhancing the quality of the teaching/learning process. Following a series of or... Read More about Using Action Research to Enhance Teaching and Learning at the University of Technology, Jamaica.

Patterns of Network and User Activity in an Inhabited Television Event (2001)
Journal Article
Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., & Craven, M. (2001). Patterns of Network and User Activity in an Inhabited Television Event. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 10(1), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1162/105474601750182306

Inhabited television takes traditional broadcast television and combines it with multiuser virtual reality to give new possibilities for interaction and participation in and around shows or channels. Out of This World was an experimental inhabited TV... Read More about Patterns of Network and User Activity in an Inhabited Television Event.

Inhabited television: broadcasting interaction from within collaborative virtual environments (2000)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., & Craven, M. (2000). Inhabited television: broadcasting interaction from within collaborative virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(4), 510-547. https://doi.org/10.1145/365058.365095

Inhabited television combines collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) with broadcast television so that on-line audiences can participate in television shows within shared virtual worlds. We describe a series of experiments with inhabited televisio... Read More about Inhabited television: broadcasting interaction from within collaborative virtual environments.

Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web (1999)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Taylor, I., Brailsford, D. F., Koleva, B., Craven, M. P., Fraser, M., …Greenhalgh, C. (1999). Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web. ACM Computing Surveys, 31(4es),

Although large-scale public hypermedia structures such as the World Wide Web are popularly referred to as "cyberspace", the extent to which they constitute a space in the everyday sense of the word is questionable. This paper reviews recent work in t... Read More about Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web.

A faster learning neural network classifier using selective backpropagation (1997)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Craven, M. P. (1997). A faster learning neural network classifier using selective backpropagation.

The problem of saturation in neural network classification problems is discussed. The listprop algorithm is presented which reduces saturation and dramatically increases the rate of convergence.

The technique uses selective application of the bac... Read More about A faster learning neural network classifier using selective backpropagation.