Socio-Technical Resilience for Targeted Community Healthcare
We met the Sphere project group in the University of Bristol (16th November 2017), who have been working on smart home technologies.They arranged a one day workshop for us explaining the devices they have built and the research they have
Our plan for the next two months includes: To continue interviewing people in the Exeter and Milton Keynes pilot studies, until we have a good understanding of the needs of the different types of stakeholders/circles of support that the STRETCH
Researchers at the OU have set up a data gateway to connect the sensors with a remote server. They are testing their first motion sensor to determine the robustness of the data collection system and also determine optimal ways of
The OU team had a meeting with Dr Chris Lindesay, he is a consultant Acute Physician in Milton Keynes University Hospital. The information we gathered during the meeting is very helpful in identifying the common medical problems among the older
We will soon launch a community survey intended to understand people’s motivations for being informal supporters of older people, and we are also looking to build collaborations with some local Exeter organisations who are running community capacity building initiatives. The
We have now met and are working with 5 pilot participants, to map their circles of support networks and identify ways to strengthen them through social, technical, and socio-technical means. The information we gather here is helping to build “archetypes”
To conduct the Exeter and Milton Keynes pilot studies. To develop “archetypes” of care-recipients and circles of support networks. These can be used as a starting point when working with individuals, and to assist with decisions about what technological solutions
Akshika Wijesundara has just joined the STRETCH project as a PhD student where his research will focus on some of the instrumentation of participant homes. Akshika is a graduate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa,
In the last blog we announced that Mohamed Bennasar will be joining us- this is some more background about his research experience and how he hopes to apply it to STRETCH. I have been in the area of machine learning,
At the OU we will soon commence conducting an elicitation study to understand privacy concerns of older adults (age 60+ without any serious mobility conditions or severe cognitive impairment) in Milton Keynes. This will involve 5 focus group studies with