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Technologies for Health, Rehabilitation and Self Management of Long Term Conditions
30 June 2008

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Technologies for Health, Rehabilitation and Self-Management of Long Term Conditions

30th June 2008

Bath University

Programme

9.45 Arrival, registration and refreshments

The Chair, Professor Chris  Eccleston, Director of the Bath Centre for Pain Research and the Deputy Head for the School for Health, University of Bath

10.15 Welcome and introduction to the day, Professor Kevin Edge, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Bath
 
10.30 Nano & Next generation Healthcare, Dr Helen Hunt, Business and Innovation Directorate, EPSRC

10.50 So much for SPARC, what comes next? Professor Peter Lansley, Director, SPARC
 
11.05 The impact of autonomous smart homes on the independence of people with dementia, Professor Roger Orpwood, Director of BIME

11.30 Coffee

11.55 Augmenting the lives of older people with pervasive computing: Phones, robots, rabbits, dogs and older people, Dr Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln

12.20 SMART support for rehabilitation and self-management, Professor Sue Mawson, Sheffield Hallam University

12.50 Discussion

1.10 Lunch

2.10 Developing Technology that is Accessible, Usable, and Acceptable to Older Adults, Dr Faustina Hwang, University of Reading

2.35 A United front for the UK Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics Research, Dr Farshid Amirabdollahian, The University of Salford

3.00 Coffee

3.30 Measurement of free living physical activities and its application, Dr Nigel Harris, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases

3.55 Experience of supporting independence through the use of Functional  Electrical Stimulation, Professor Ian Swain, Salisbury District Hospital

4.20 Reflections on the day, The Chair, Professor Chris Eccleston, Director of the Bath Centre for Pain Research and the Deputy Head for the School for Health, University of Bath

4.35 Close

Exhibition

Posters are welcome. If you wish to display a poster relevant to the theme of the workshop then please indicate on the registration form.

We hope that there will be displays by Blackwell books, BIME, speech language therapy, SMART and other projects.

You can find some of the presentations of the workshop to download here.