Deb Prytherch – Research Interests

Assistive Computing: Intelligent Systems for Healthcare

CardioNet

E-ARSimBaby

Telehealth

• Lee’s picture!

Telecare

• Lee’s picture!

AGEING – the big ‘problem’, but

• Telecare still not widely understood OR deployed

• Need to understand the barriers to adoption• Eg silo thinking & service delivery• Eg unattractive technology (not objects of

desire)• Need proper understanding of the processes

of ageing, and what older people WANT

Technology pull and push

My directions

• A ‘lab’ to test hypotheses (with Christian)• Real testing community that matches target

(cf PEOPPLE project)• Can sensor technology be acceptable to older

people – how can it be made more so?• Exploring other means of realising

independence, eg NORC communities• Positioning aging as a disability that can be

ameliorated with technology rather than...

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”

“I should have called it Something you somehow haven’t to deserve”

Robert Frost: Death of the Hired Man (1915)

As a hopeless dead end, as in