Brain and Behaviour Lab

Overview

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Research Interests

Current Projects

AART-BC

The AART-BC project focuses on the development of a platform to monitor the use of assistive technology and compliance with rehabilitation programmes and support the patient outside of the clinic. The project will demonstrate the technology in three patient groups: wheelchair users, prosthetic users and the elderly.

AART-BC aims to enable clinicians, commissioners and medical technologists to better understand conditions, the assistive technology, the compliance and quality of use, and allow better exploration of the positive effects of feedback to promote self-management. At the end of this project we will have developed a prototype generic platform (AART-BC) that uses, cheap, disposable sensors in the form of temporary tattoos, in combination with other unobtrusive sensing technologies for direct application to assistive technolo-gies, their users, and people in rehabilitative programmes. These will operate in the home, as well as outside, and will by their very nature be completely conformal and un-obtrusive for embedding in daily life.

MAC Study

The Metabolic Accelerometer Calibration (MAC) Study is a small study being run in con-junction with the Human Metabolic Research Unit (HMRU) at University Hospital Coven-try and Warwickshire (UHCW). The aims of the MAC study are to develop data analysis routines that can determine calorific energy expenditure (EE) from physical activity (PA). To facilitate this a study was undertaken at the HMRU where participants wore accel-erometers over a 24-hour period and had their EE monitored using a whole body calo-rimeter chamber. Data from this study are being investigated to determine ways to iden-tify the user’s EE from their recorded PA alone.