GRiST received a very warm welcome from The Kolvin Service (Community Adolescent Forensic Service), Newcastle-upon-Tyne on February 15th. There was a lot of interest and discussions that have led to an agreement for GRiST to be adopted by the service and a number of other connected ones in the North East. training has been booked in for May so we may have some more pictures and will keep you updated.
Read the end-of-year newsletter that summarises our activities in 2017 and looks forward to our plans for 2018. Next year, 2018, is going to be a very big one for us. It will bring to fruition the GRaCE-AGE project for older adults in the community that uses sensors allied to GRiST to help keep people safe. At the same time, we will be launching a new company that makes it easier to support the growing demand for our software services.
A major health hazard for older people is the risk of falling. Not only are falls more common in people as they age, they can also do significant damage. One challenge facing GRaCE-Age in keeping older people independent for long is the monitoring and managing falls.
Using natural language processing artificial intelligence, a text-based chatbot has been created, which implements the GRiST risk assessment.
This conference is "an interdisciplinary project focusing on the many roles of music within human living, thinking and feeling. This event will explore all historical and contemporary genres of music to map the ways in which music imagines, expresses, confronts, wrestles and gives us ways of responding to and coping with dying, death, grief and remembrance".
A major focus of GRaCE-AGE is on the active monitoring of older people living at home, to improve their wellbeing and connection to their care network. One monitoring technique, acoustic detection, is investigated in a new paper.
The GRandis consortium met in Dublin in November to approve the needs analysis led by Dr Buckingham from Aston University.
The GRaCE-AGE team delivered a five-day module at KU Leuven, titled ‘Health Informatics in the Community’.
Produced as part of the ATHENS Programme, an exchange programme held by a network of European universities, the module was attended by fourteen students from six institutions, receiving excellent feedback.
Drawing on his experiences in developing a clinical decision support system for mental health risk and safety management, Dr Buckingham delivered a presentation discussing the problems of translating health informatics research into clinical practice.
The prestigious Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) Award, organized by the BBSRC, MRC, NERC and the HGI and Nottingham University, now in its 22nd year, is an innovative competition developed to raise awareness of the commercialisation of ideas among early career researchers. The competition is funded by sponsorship and aims to encourage an entrepreneurial culture in the UK postgraduate and postdoctoral base for the benefit of the UK economy.