Motivating Mobility: Interactive Systems to promote Physical Activity and Leisure for people with limited mobility

该项目旨在探索如何最好地利用互动和通信技术的新安排来支持行动不便的人的福祉。我们的主要方法是通过结合手机技术和互动个性化游戏，鼓励人们扩展或维持他们的活动。我们希望探索这种方法在一系列安排中的效用，从室内床为基础的设置，到家中受限的移动设置，再到室外设置。例如，考虑一个中风后躺在医院病床上的人；他们想要改善他们的手臂运动。当他们移动手臂时，他们手腕上的一个简单的加速度计装置会检测到，他们的床头电视屏幕会显示他们家中的情况。当他们移动他们的手/一开始可能只有几英寸（后来随着他们变得更好，他们将不得不移动更多），他们将能够“在他们的房子里走动”。我们希望探索的前提是，这促使他们移动他们的手/对恢复运动至关重要/但它也重新将他们与家联系起来。在类似的情况下，他们可以和自己的孩子或对面的病人玩游戏。他们也可以在家里继续使用。另一个人可能可以在外面散步，但他们的照顾者担心他们可能在外面生病或迷路。同一设备监视他们的位置和活动/他们在哪里？他们是站着、坐着还是倒着？好玩的游戏将被用来鼓励他们更加活跃。该设备连接了他们和他们的护理人员，使他们都更加自信。如果他们生病了，该设备还可以发出警报，这样他们的护理人员就知道去哪里找他们了。这个范围界定项目将通过汇集一个多学科研究团队，在临床环境中具有专业知识，在实现这一愿景所需的技术方面具有经验，以及在与我们寻求受益的人合作塑造这些技术所需的以用户为中心的参与性技术，来确定这种方法的实用性和潜在效益。该项目需要直接解决一些关键的研究问题：-我们如何最好地个性化个人需求的方法和治疗？什么是最适合吸引和激励人们的内容？-感应和通讯技术的哪一种安排是最可接受和有用的？-我们如何最好地评估该方法的有效性？-我们如何在整个医疗保健系统中推广这种方法？

This project seeks to explore how best to use novel arrangements of interactive and communication technologies to support the well being for people with limited mobility. Our broad approach will be to motivate people to extend or maintain their activities using a combination of mobile technology and interactive personalised games, presented in familiar ways. We wish to explore the utility of this approach in a range of arrangements spanning from indoor bed based setting, through restricted mobility settings in the home to outdoor settings. Consider, for example, a person in a hospital bed after a stroke; they want to improve their arm movement. A simple accelerometer based device on their wrist detects when they move their arm and their bedside television screen presents a view of the inside of their home. As they move their hand / at first maybe only a few inches (later as they get better they will have to move more) they will be able to 'walk around their house'. The premise we wish to explore is that this motivates them to move their hand / essential to recovering movement / but it also re-connects them with their home. In a similar set-up they could play a game with their children or the patient opposite. They can also continue using it at home. Another person may be able to walk outside, but their carer is anxious that they may become ill while out, or get lost. The same device monitors their position and activity / where are they? Are they standing, sitting, fallen? And playful games will be used to encourage them to be more active. The device connects them and their carer, making them both more confident. The device could also raise an alarm if they became ill and their carer would know where to find them.This scoping project will ascertain the utility and potential benefit of this approach by brining together a multidisciplinary research team with expertise in the clinical setting, experience in the technologies needed to realise this vision and in the participative user centred techniques needed to shape these technologies in partnership with those we seek to benefit. This project needs to directly address a number of key research questions: - How do we best personalise approaches and treatments to the needs of individuals?- What is the most appropriate content to engage and motivate people?-Which arrangement of sensing and communication technologies is most acceptable and useful? - How do we best assess effectiveness of the approach?- How might we scale up this approach across the healthcare system?