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SiDE Presentation by Prof. Paul Watson of Newcastle University
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This is a presentation given by Professor Paul Watson of Newcastle University about the digital inclusion project SiDE (http://www.side.ac.uk) that was given at SuperMondays SuperAgeing on Tuesday 31st August 2010 at the Culture Labs at Newcastle University, UK
Transcript of SiDE Presentation by Prof. Paul Watson of Newcastle University
Paul WatsonDirector SiDE
Director Digital InstituteProfessor of Computer Science
Newcastle University
Social Exclusion
Misery Loss of £Bs from economy
Social Inclusion
Digital Technologies
New Technologies
• New technologies have the potential to make a positive impact on excluded people
– Pervasive computing
– Cloud computing
– Mobile communications
• Our research aims to realise that potential
• £12M Research “Hub”
– Research Councils UK funded
– 1 of 3 UK Digital Economy Hubs
– 2009-2014
• Newcastle & Dundee Universities
• Working with many external groups
– public, private & 3rd sector
– Years Ahead a key partner
Project Structure
Activities
Accessibility Connected Home &
Community
Transport CreativeIndustries
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Technology
Society
Business
Users
Multi - Disciplinary Team
• Professor Paul Watson, Computing Science & Digital Institute
• Professor Phil Blythe, Civil Engineering
• Professor Feng Li, Business School
• (Dr. Sally Jane Norman, Culture Lab)
• Professor Patrick Olivier, Computing Science & DI
• Ranald Richardson, Geography, Politics and Sociology
• Professor Atau Tanaka, Arts & Cultures
• Professor Aad van Moorsel, Computing Science
• Dr. Lynne Corner, Institute for Ageing and Health
Professor Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University
Can we use pervasive technologies to allow people to stay longer in their own homes?
Dementia
“Gets the kettle, fills it, switches it on…
but then she’ll stand there, and I’ll say –‘what are you doing now?’
and I’ve jogged her memory again…
she gets the coffee jar, and she’ll take the top off the jar. And she’ll look at it and think ‘what am I doing with this off for?”
Ambient Kitchen
Grand Challenge
How can we use real-time information to influence behaviour (for the good)?
Key Stages
Collect
Process
Influence
People
How to model and reason about behaviour?
How to influence behaviour?
Intervention
Sensors
What data to collect?
Influencing People with Dementia
Collect
Process
Influence
People
How to model and reason about behaviour?
How to influence behaviour?
Intervention
Sensors
What data to collect?
RFID Accelerometers in utensilsFloor pressureVideo
Data Mining,Activity Recognition,Partially Ordered Markov Decision Processes
Prompting,Alerts
Real Time Historic
App App App
Consumers
Consumers & Generators
App
Sensors
Generators
App
Data WarehouseEvent Processing
Our General Architecture
Inform
Create ModelsCalibrate ModelsAggregations
Filter
Sensor events→ Application events
SIDE Summary
• Digital Technology currently not benefitting all
• Our aim is to transform lives
– focus on research into harnessing new technologies
– to benefit the socially excluded
• Creating Centre of Excellence in Digital Inclusion
– multi-disciplinary team essential
