Identifying needs and advancing the state of the art in health and wellbeing systems

Maurice Mulvenna

7 Feb 2013

Outline

¨  Experience ¨  European Innovation Partnership on Active &

Healthy Ageing ¨  Ambition

My experience in national and international collaborative research

Experience

¨  Develop and evaluate a user-validated remotely configurable cognitive prosthetic device with associated services for people with mild dementia

¨  Helping people navigate their day: ¤ Reminding function ¤ Activity support ¤ Activity assistance ¤ Safety warnings

Mulvenna, M.D., Nugent, C.D. (Eds.), Supporting People with Dementia Using Pervasive Health Technologies, Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, 2010, 238 pages, Springer

Next Generation Services

¨  Health & Wellbeing Benefits: ¤ Prolonged independent living ¤  Increased physical and psychological health and

wellbeing ¤  Improved motivation and self-management of health ¤  Increased sense of wellbeing and security ¤ More efficient, cost-effective, and targeted delivery of

services ¤ More accessible communication systems

Advisory Committee on Older and Disabled People, (2010) Next Generation Services for Older and Disabled People, Ofcom ACOD, Last accessed January 2013 at http://goo.gl/ApRwB

¨  Provide therapeutic support and guidance to this group of people during the hours of darkness ¤  Investigate the needs of people with dementia at night

time ¤ Research new technologically-based therapeutic

interventions capabilities ¤ Sleep measurements variables: quantity of sleep,

quality of sleep, rhythm of sleep

Mulvenna, M.D., et al (2011) Visualization of Data for Ambient Assisted Living Services, IEEE Communications, January 2011, 49(1): 110-117.

¨  Investigating the unmet needs of older people living in the local community (in a variety of living accommodation), by talking with older people in order to prioritise problems, seeking the best available evidence to meet needs, and working with people to implement and evaluate the evidence in practice.

Beamish, E., McDade, D., Mulvenna, M.D., Martin, S., Soilemezi, D., (2012) Better Together: The TRAIL User Participation Toolkit for Living Labs, University of Ulster, 108 pages,

¨  Significant technical complexity ¨  Getting results outside lab is still

difficult ¨  Integration of technologies is

troublesome ¨  Consistency of results difficult to

achieve ¨  Need for person-centred approach ¨  Participants like being part of process

Mulvenna, M.D., Lightbody, G., Thomson, E., McCullagh, P., Ware, M., Martin, S., (2012) Realistic Expectations with Brain Computer Interfaces, Journal of Assistive Technologies, 6(4): 233-245.

¨  New products and services developed through participatory research with older people and triple-helix partners in Northern Ireland, Norway, and Sweden

¨  The products and services focus on mobile safety alarms, prescribed self treatment and mobile-based social networks.

Mulvenna, M.D., et al. (2010) Towards Sustainable Business Models From Healthcare Technology Research, International Journal of Computers in Healthcare, 1(1): 20-35.

Research strategy

Bougiouklis, K., Papageorgiou, D., Mulvenna, M.D., Koumpis, A., Dogac, A., Akcay, B., Kirisci, P., (2006) Towards Successful Participation in European ICT Research: Advice on Research Strategy and Action Planning, IST-BONUS, 110 pages

First impressions

European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing

EIP AHA: Strategic Plan

EIP AHA: Operational Plan

SIP: EIP on AHA

SIP: EIP on AHA

How to win funding and influence people

Ambition

Ambition

¨  User needs ¨  Consortium ¨  Impact ¨  Advance state of the art / Innovate

Systemic integration

Fulop et al 2005, in Lewis et al (2010)

Systemic innovation

Innovation for the User

Functional Innovation

Service Innovation

Clinical Innovation

Organisational Innovation

Based on Fulop et al 2005, in Lewis et al (2010)

Systemic innovation à Normative innovation

Innovation for the User

Functional Innovation

Service Innovation

Clinical Innovation

Organisational Innovation

Based on Fulop et al 2005, in Lewis et al (2010)

Open data Hacker Labs

NESTA X-Discipline

ABC C-TRIC

Living Labs eParticipation

Triple-Helix Partnerships

A University of Ulster Innovation Lab visit trail.ulster.ac.uk

THANKS… Tel: 02890368602

Email: md.mulvenna@ulster.ac.uk Web: trail.ulster.ac.uk

Twitter: @mauricemulvenna