Engineering A Novel Mobile Assistive Technology to Improve Quality of Life, Independence and Medical Condition Management in Individuals with Healthca

设计一种新型移动辅助技术，以提高 Healthca 患者的生活质量、独立性和医疗状况管理

• 批准号: 2601543
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Aston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2601543
• 关键词: Engineering; Novel; Mobile; Assistive; Technology

Personal mobile technologies (e.g., smartphones, wearable technology, etc.) have significant potential to be used effectively as assistive devices to improve the quality of life for individuals with health-related needs. This can range from self-tracking systems designed to support behaviour change based on information users collect about themselves through to rehabilitative technology designed to support users in regaining independence following a significant health event. This emerging field is still in its infancy, with scope for significant contribution to scientific knowledge yet to be realised in terms of design and evaluation methodological know-how as well as longitudinal evidence of the efficacy of the use of such technologies in practice. The aim of this PhD project is, therefore, to design, develop and evaluate a novel mobile assistive technology that has the potential to significantly and positively impact the quality of life, independence and healthcare management capabilities of individuals with special or healthcare-related needs in the field of mental health. In so doing, it will contribute to the emerging field of engineering and health as well as to expanding know-how in the field of human-centred design, notably in terms of adaptive methodologies for designing and evaluating with atypical user groups. The key objective of this project is that it will benefit citizens within the chosen community of study (who it can be argued represent a marginalised community of use), contributing to an improved quality of life by enhancing their independence and maximising the benefit - in a healthcare context - to the individual of the vast quantities of data that can be collected/generated via the use of pervasive, mobile technologies.

个人移动技术(例如智能手机、可穿戴技术等)有很大潜力被有效地用作辅助设备，以改善有健康相关需求的个人的生活质量。这方面的内容从旨在支持基于用户收集的关于自己的信息的行为改变的自我跟踪系统，到旨在支持用户在重大健康事件后重新获得独立性的康复技术。这一新兴领域仍处于初级阶段，在设计和评估方法诀窍方面以及在实践中使用这种技术的有效性的纵向证据方面，尚未实现对科学知识的重大贡献。因此，该博士项目的目的是设计、开发和评估一种新的移动辅助技术，该技术有可能显著和积极地影响在精神健康领域有特殊或与医疗保健相关需求的个人的生活质量、独立性和医疗保健管理能力。通过这样做，它将有助于新兴的工程和保健领域以及扩大以人为中心的设计领域的专门知识，特别是在设计和评估非典型用户群体的适应性方法方面。该项目的关键目标是，它将使选定研究社区内的公民受益(可以说，他们代表着被边缘化的使用社区)，通过提高他们的独立性，并最大限度地利用普及的移动技术收集/生成的海量数据对个人的好处，从而提高他们的生活质量。