We met Mark and Claire Warren at the Bonymaen care home in Swansea. It provides short term support (which is maximum six weeks) for older people who have spent a long time in hospital and need help transitioning back to living in their own home. The care home…
We designed and built button based tangible user interfaces (TUIs) for mood self logging. Currently our mood TUI has 3 off the shelf bluetooth buttons that correspond to happy, neutral and sad mood states. When a user presses any of the buttons, it communicates to the raspberry pie…
The project will develop a patient-centred digital healthcare support infrastructure that is able to integrate and coordinate data and capabilities from both automated sensing and the human ‘circles of support’ ranging from medical professionals, care workers, community support and relatives. During the course of the…
We will commence the first stages of implementing sensors in some pilot participants houses and showing them the sharing interfaces – asking them what information they would and wouldn’t share with their family, support network, and healthcare professionals. The community survey we advertised in the…
Dr. Daniel Gooch is a Lecturer in Computing at the Open University, UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bath in 2014. His research interests are focussed around Human Computer Interaction (HCI), particularly in the design of communication systems. He was…
The Human-Computer Interaction team members have been focussing on developing a minimal viable interface that will allow an early pilot deployment for sharing and privacy control. The proposed solution is to have a tablet-based control mechanism for controlling the privacy of participants by allowing them…
After evaluating various off the shelf and specially developed sensors, this month we created a short list of technologies that will form the basis of our pilot studies. With the help of colleagues at Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment (SPHERE) project in…
We spent the last couple of months talking to a variety of family, friends, and health professionals connected to our key pilot participants, about their support roles and how they could be supported by STRETCH. We will continue these conversations with as many people as…
The project will develop a patient-centred digital healthcare support infrastructure that is able to integrate and coordinate data and capabilities from both automated sensing and the human ‘circles of support’ ranging from medical professionals, care workers, community support and relatives. During the course of the…