Speaking
to the publication, Professor Hawley shared the centre’s aims: “Our goal is to
help older people, people with disabilities and people with long-term health
conditions to help themselves through the use of carefully designed and relevant
technology,”
In
order to achieve this goal, Professor Hawley takes us through how CATCH works
with partners to develop these technologies. “What we specialise in is working
with people who are eventually going to use these technologies so they can
shape and influence the design of it. That way you get a product which is far
more useable by them and is tailored to their needs as opposed to something
that the technologist thinks is a great idea.”
Giving
the reader a glimpse of the centre’s valuable work, Mark talks about the
innovative research team that’s helping people to live independently and be
able to self-manage their conditions through user friendly technology.
One
current project developing a new assistive technology in the form of an app is
explored in the article: “One such development is helping people with
neurological disorders who have lost the ability to speak clearly. We are
working on a computer program that uses speech recognition technology tailored to
an individual, it understands what is being said when they try to speak and interprets
this before speaking out a clearer
version.” CATCH is currently working to get this technology commercialised. Find out more about the VIVOCA project
on our website.
The
Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH) brings
healthcare scientists, engineers, psychologists, computer scientists, architects,
and social scientists together in a creative hub that is changing lives for the
better.
For more information about CATCH or information related to
this article, please contact Laura Murray.
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