CLAHRC West collaboration with SPHERE to develop health monitoring sensors
1 July 2015
A new collaboration between NIHR CLAHRC West and the SPHERE Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) will help SPHERE’s platform of health sensors meet user requirements.
SPHERE is developing a platform of sensors to monitor the health and wellbeing of people at home, while also enabling clinical care. SPHERE is an early warning system to detect and prevent long-term medical conditions including obesity, depression, stroke, falls, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal diseases. The collaboration between SPHERE and CLAHRC West will give even more emphasis to the requirements of patients and healthcare professionals.
Working between CLAHRC West and SPHERE, Dr Patrick Kierkegaard is developing mixed-methods studies focusing on user requirements, implementation and evaluation of SPHERE technology. These include what healthcare professionals and members of the public want from in-home technology and how best to implement it in clinical care. The work will include collaboration with stakeholders across the region and will form the basis of new work into translation.
The SPHERE-IRC project is led by the University of Bristol together with the Universities of Southampton and Reading, and is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
A video, made with Aardman animations, showing people's attitudes to SPHERE: sensors for the home environment, a project to develop monitoring systems to help people stay healthy.