Registration & refreshments

Introduction to the CW Wireless Healthcare SIG from Rob Blake of Philips Research

Dementia and Technology; Tom Dening, Professor of Dementia Research, University of Nottingham

Tom will cover general issues around dementia and how technology can be of benefit to people living with dementia and people providing care for them. He will describe the types of technology that may be used in dementia and discuss some of the work that his department have been doing in Nottingham.

Q&A

Living well with dementia – the work of the Alzheimer’s Society; Pauline Meakins, Information Worker, The Alzheimers Society

Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them. Dementia can happen to anyone and there's currently no cure. There are 850,000 people with dementia in the UK and the number is set to rise to 1 million by 2021. At Alzheimer's Society, we believe passionately that life doesn't end when dementia begins. We are here for anyone affected by dementia, and we do everything we can to keep people with dementia connected to their lives and the people who matter most.

Q&A

Workshops, led by the four speakers and SIG champions

1. Community versus clinical monitoring: designing for different user interactions in this area – Leo Poll and Rob Blake

2. What technology can we take from other sectors to drive dementia tech forwards – Ladan Baghai-Ravary and Primrose Mbanefo

3. Collecting data from difficult subjects in mental health - the benefits and complexities – what arethe big questions in data to answer? – Pauline Meakins and Collette Johnson

4. Understanding good clinical collaboration and a discussion of learning from delegates – TomDening and Peter Ferguson

Lunch and Networking

Uncovering unmet needs; Leo Poll, Akendi UK

Technically everything is possible, meeting people's needs is where there real challenges are. How do
you identify unmet needs when users cannot articulate their needs properly or are simply unaware of
these for whatever reason? Trial and error is the standard approach but it really doesn't have to be that
way. This talk will address this chicken and egg problem and will show that one of these actually comes
first.

Q&A

Challenges in developing an automated healthcare system; Dr Ladan Baghai-Ravary, Aculab PLC

The talk briefly outlines a project undertaken to develop a system to aid clinicians with diagnosis and monitoring of diseases affecting speech. The system was designed to analyse subjects' voices automatically, drawing on linguistic and engineering expertise, with the results of the analysis being directed to an appropriate researcher and/or clinician. This research involved collection of 25,000 subjects' voices over the telephone, initially focussing on subjects suffering from Parkinson's Disease. During this process a number of unforeseen issues became apparent, related to scientific and behavioural preconceptions. This talk focuses on these problems and other challenges often taken for granted by engineers and researchers.

Q&A

Feedback from the Workshops

Open Discussion and Live ‘Ask the Experts’ session, chaired by Collette Johnson of Plextek Consulting

Including live questions via Twitter, facilitated by Primrose Mbanefo of Accenture
Experts on the Panel will include:
o Prof Tom Dening, University of Nottingham
o Pauline Meakins, The Alzheimers Society
o Anna Jackson, Cambridge Cognition
o Leo Poll, Akendi UK

Fill in Evaluation Forms followed by Refreshments and Networking

Event Closes