Slide 1: Jonathan Wallace
Roy Harper
Slide 2: Jonathan Wallace
Director of Knowledge & Technology Transfer Faculty of Computing & Engineering, University of Ulster
TRAIL Living Laboratory
Technologies for Rurality, Ageing and Independent Living
Slide 3: Activities
• £22 Million total project value with income to UU of £2.2M • Research & Technology & Knowledge Transfer:
– TRAIL (Technologies for Rurality, Ageing and Independent Living) ENoLL – European Integrated Projects and STRPs – e.g. COGKNOW, BRAIN – Charitable and Philanthropic Sources – e.g. NESTLING Technologies – INTERREG III and IV / Northern Peripheries e.g. NETWELL & MyHealth@Age (WebHealth 2.0) – ETAC project funded by the Alzheimer’s Association and INTEL Inc. in the USA – FUSION and KTP
Slide 4: Why Connected Health ?
Timeliness – Demographics (‘Pig in the Python’) – Healthcare (Medical > Social Model) – Computing (Pervasive)
Kathleen Casey-Kirschling
Slide 5: What is a Connected Health ?
IT IS NOT JUST SIMPLY
“TECHNOLOGY”
Slide 6: More Than Just Technology
Provision of Integrated Technologies & Services To Support Independent Living
Slide 7: Way Forward & Challenges
• Balancing
– User Needs – Market – Technology
• Multi-disciplinary Partnerships
– – – – Users / Carers Health & Welfare Organisations Companies (MNC and SMEs) Research Organisations
Slide 8: Way Forward & Challenges
• Open Innovation
– – – – Business Community Government Academic
• User-Centered
– Balanced Design Processes
• Setting up
– Innovation Models that are Socially Inclusive
• Building Stakeholder Partnerships
