Environmental impacts of digital services for health and wellbeing in the home
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sussex
Department Name: University of Sussex Business School
Abstract
In order to understand the environmental impact of digital technologies (e.g. video intercom systems) and services (e.g. telecare), offered widely in special social housing for elderly people (e.g. independent living schemes), this project studies i) the built environment (e.g. the materials and systems used in such homes); ii) how users/elderly people interact with these digital technologies; and iii) the roles and experiences of professional eHealth intermediaries in providing health services in the home. We quantify the environmental impacts of these technologies and services in the home, from cradle to grave/throughout their lifecycle, in terms of their carbon and water footprints, the extent to which they lead to depletion of resources, etc). On the basis of these and working with users, carers, technology providers and property managers, we identify alternative ways of improving these environmental impacts through changes in the technologies, built environment and practices of use and provision.
Providing different angles of understanding the social and technological processes involved in shaping these technologies and services in the home, in a complementary way is a fundamental aspect of the project. Therefore, we use a mixture of methods, such as narrative-based interviews and case studies, and data, such as number of video calls out to health professionals; energy usage by digital systems and how efficiently are technologies used to evaluate the environmental impact of these technologies and services as they take place in social housing for the elderly. To better understand these different social and technological aspects and how they interact with each other, we work with users, health professionals and a broader group of organisations and individuals which are directly and indirectly part of the ways in which these digital technologies and services take place, in a way which enables these groups to talk about things that matter to them rather than follow our pre-determined agenda. We adjust what we are doing throughout the project according to this input.
Throughout the project we will actively and directly take action to reduce the environmental impact of the research project itself in all its parts, not only implementing small and mundane changes (such as using less or no paper in the process of research) to coming up with new ways to collect data, plan events and engage with key audiences for the research. For example, we will extend the lifespan of research products by reusing equipment (IT, digital recorders, etc.) and share equipment between the different teams. To do this we will develop a Sustainable Research plan, using existing best practices, and through continuous consultation with the key people and organisations we will be working with. The plan will evolve with our engagement with different partners and with the needs of the project. We will continuously monitor our performance and report on environmental sustainability to ensure that we are indeed enhancing or directly benefiting the environment through the project.
Working with several key partners: Orbit (a housing association), Appello (a digital system developer), NHS Digital (health service provider) and UCL's Tomorrow's Home 2050 project: Visions of Home-based Healthcare (an immersive interactive space where the home of the future in 30 years' time is brought alive), allows us to trace and observe some of the digital technologies during their development, use in the home and as embedded within a broader digital health environment. This offers the project a connected and comprehensive view. Most importantly, we will work together to identify new practical ways of taking direct action and doing so, to enhance the environment through the use of digital technologies and services in the home.
Providing different angles of understanding the social and technological processes involved in shaping these technologies and services in the home, in a complementary way is a fundamental aspect of the project. Therefore, we use a mixture of methods, such as narrative-based interviews and case studies, and data, such as number of video calls out to health professionals; energy usage by digital systems and how efficiently are technologies used to evaluate the environmental impact of these technologies and services as they take place in social housing for the elderly. To better understand these different social and technological aspects and how they interact with each other, we work with users, health professionals and a broader group of organisations and individuals which are directly and indirectly part of the ways in which these digital technologies and services take place, in a way which enables these groups to talk about things that matter to them rather than follow our pre-determined agenda. We adjust what we are doing throughout the project according to this input.
Throughout the project we will actively and directly take action to reduce the environmental impact of the research project itself in all its parts, not only implementing small and mundane changes (such as using less or no paper in the process of research) to coming up with new ways to collect data, plan events and engage with key audiences for the research. For example, we will extend the lifespan of research products by reusing equipment (IT, digital recorders, etc.) and share equipment between the different teams. To do this we will develop a Sustainable Research plan, using existing best practices, and through continuous consultation with the key people and organisations we will be working with. The plan will evolve with our engagement with different partners and with the needs of the project. We will continuously monitor our performance and report on environmental sustainability to ensure that we are indeed enhancing or directly benefiting the environment through the project.
Working with several key partners: Orbit (a housing association), Appello (a digital system developer), NHS Digital (health service provider) and UCL's Tomorrow's Home 2050 project: Visions of Home-based Healthcare (an immersive interactive space where the home of the future in 30 years' time is brought alive), allows us to trace and observe some of the digital technologies during their development, use in the home and as embedded within a broader digital health environment. This offers the project a connected and comprehensive view. Most importantly, we will work together to identify new practical ways of taking direct action and doing so, to enhance the environment through the use of digital technologies and services in the home.
Organisations
- University of Sussex (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of AlmerÃa (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Ardia Digital Health (Collaboration)
- University of Santiago de Compostela (Collaboration)
- Appello (Project Partner)
Publications
Tarpani R
(2024)
Environmental impacts of a digital health and well-being service in elderly living schemes
in Cleaner Environmental Systems
Tarpani R
(2024)
Circular strategy assessment for digital services: The CADiS framework
in Sustainable Production and Consumption
Stilgoe J
(2023)
Artificial Intelligence and the City - Urbanistic Perspectives on AI
Royston SK
(2023)
Environmental sustainability and virtual health appointments
Royston SK
(2023)
Minimising environmental impacts of research
O'Donovan C
(2023)
Accountability and neglect in UK social care innovation
in International Journal of Care and Caring
Melanie S
(2023)
Encyclopedia of Social Innovation
Barros MV
(2023)
Circularity measurement of external resource flows in companies: The circular flow tool.
in Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
| Title | Catalogue for digital technologies for living well |
| Description | A catalogue (in paper and digital version) specifically designed for use by people over the age of 55 with limited knowledge of digital technologies, and living in sheltered schemes in England. The catalogue introduces 5 new assistive technologies that could be paired with the main digital warden call system in the schemes called Living Hub by Appello. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | 100 copies of the catalogue are in use across three sheltered schemes in England and have resulted in 56 people registering to use at least one of the digital technologies described in the catalogue. |
| URL | https://sussex.app.box.com/file/973729223644 |
| Title | Suitcase of future digital technologies for health and wellbeing in the home |
| Description | A tailored suitcase for engagement with people over the age of 55 living in sheltered schemes in England. The suitcase was designed by The Liminal Space and contains 5 specially designed objects (a digital cat; a toothbrush demonstrating the concept of measuring the levels of Ph in the urine; a smart plug which asks the users if they have wifi connection to plug and play; an innovative tablet concept which can allows users to make use of holograms; and a digital vase demonstrating a concept to monitor their environment quality), as well as three placemats with questions. By rotating the objects between the different placemats participants are invited to explore and think through the role of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in the home in the future and their implications for independent living. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | We used the suitcase to engage in co-production activities residents three sheltered schemes in England: 15th June 2022 in Hastings - 32 people 27th June 2022 in Rugby - 11 people 28th June 2022 in Stratford upon Avon - 14 people All participants were from vulnerable and hard to engage groups with digital technologies and participants were between the ages of 54 and 99. |
| Description | The cradle-to-grave environmental impact of warden call systems (WCS) comes from: i) the electricity needed to operate and cool down server rooms; and ii) the materials and components used in the electronic equipment, specifically the systems' printed circuit boards. More than 90% of WCS' electricity consumption comes from air conditioning units which cool them and the electronic equipment operating behind the scenes in the server room. The production of metals essential for digital components (such as gold, silver, and copper in printed circuit boards) are major contributors to environmental impacts on a global scale. KEY AREAS FOR CHANGE 1. Prolonging the lifespan and use of electronic equipment by 20% offers a substantial reduction in impacts. Actions to do this include: Making sure that digital technologies (including WCS) are interoperable with consumer and assistive technologies; Providing information sheets on how to use digital technologies to improve the battery's lifespan and how to efficiently run servers. 2. Low cost, low environmental impact server room design: Design server rooms to minimise requirements for cooling via air conditioning, enable the use of renewable resources, and apply low-carbon solutions (such as heat exchangers); Whenever possible, switch the location of server rooms to cooler and more thermally isolated areas of the building (e.g. basements). 3) Procurement of warden call systems WCS should have clear guidelines about: Optimal spaces for server operation (size, ventilation, and thermal insulation of the room); Optimal conditions for housing servers (temperature requirements for different seasons and over time as the technology ages; recommended frequency of system performance checks and adjustments); Optimal air conditioning requirements for efficient server performance (when it needs to be switched on and off) WCS developers and operators should embrace circularity principles by providing: Clear details about the quantity and type of recycled materials included; Clear description of the end-of-life destination for the system equipment, particularly metals and printed circuit boards; Operation and installation guides which recommend increasing WCS' lifespan; At least one WCS maintenance, operation, and repair session for scheme managers where the system is installed; Scheduled training sessions for maintenance contractors on improving the WCS' circularity and performance. Procurement of WCS in sheltered housing needs to move away from a 'Plug and Play' model, towards continuous maintenance and evaluation of the system and its suitability for the evolving context of sheltered housing. This means a bigger focus on inclusion and identifying and addressing residents' needs (after- and-user care), and closer cooperation between technology and housing providers, maintenance contractors and installers during the lifetime of the system, through joint evaluations and training. Using (or avoiding using) digital technologies in sheltered housing involves other people beyond the residents themselves - digital proxies. Digital proxies include: neighbours, friends, scheme managers, family, partners, care professionals and friendly bank managers. They often don't know about each other's involvement, and sometimes are not even in the same timezone. They actively shape residents' perceptions, expectations and lasting beliefs about digital technologies - both positively and negatively. Engaging with these people can be an effective way to support residents in their use of digital technology, helping housing providers get more value from their digital investments and improving residents' wellbeing. Digital technologies often make the workplace more complicated for sheltered housing staff, not less, by adding to already high workloads. Introducing more digital technologies in sheltered housing means staff are more important than ever as key enablers for residents' wellbeing. However, staff's experiences are often neglected in digital tech design, and their level of digital skills varies. Involving staff in decisions about the design and implementation of technologies can mean that these technologies are deployed more effectively. This can help to improve staff and resident satisfaction, and ultimately generate more value from investments in technology. To use digital technologies - from warden call systems to smart plugs - sheltered housing residents need support from the point of installation onwards. Positive digital experiences require strategic and proactive action from housing providers, including: • Asking residents if they need help, rather than relying on them to ask • Developing, and acting in line with, a coherent vision for how digital technology will improve work and living in sheltered schemes. • Creating digital support baselines, accounting for scheme infrastructure and digital skill levels. Such actions can help improve residents' wellbeing and ensure the value of investments in digital technologies is realised. Positive experiences with digital technology depend on its alignment with sheltered housing residents' individual capabilities and needs. Residents' access to digital infrastructure and control of digital interfaces can influence their feelings of safety and security in sheltered schemes. Sheltered housing residents need continued in-person and tailored support, adapted to their changing needs over time, to live well with digital technologies. Frequent reminders focusing on small details, such as reminders of how to carry out key tasks, and using multiple channels communicate these (printed and in- person formats), tends to work best. |
| Exploitation Route | The project partner Orbit trialled two changes to AC settings in 2024 in their in Garden Court office: 1) switching off of an AC unit that was always on and monitoring the impact on the server in a metering room; and 2) reducing the number of operational units down from 4 to 3 (a trial of reducing to 2 led to a temperature increase) and reducing the number of cooling units switched on in the main server room. for the office (biggest server room in Orbit). We have reduced the number of operational units down from 4 to 3 (we tried to reduce to 2 but the temperature increased). The pilot was integrated into Orbit's ESOS audit as recommendation, calculating that these changes will save Orbit over 30,000kWh/PA worth £9,000. The recommendations have been rolled out across all buildings with servers in the company, starting with Independent Living schemes. The trials are ongoing with regular evaluations from IT. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Energy Environment Healthcare |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/company/101124012/admin/page-posts/published/ |
| Description | There have been three key areas of impact from the project so far: 1. DIGITAL WARDEN CALL SYSTEMS PROCUREMENT WITHIN ORBIT. The key findings from the LCA analysis of the warden call systems have resulted in concrete changes to the way in which Orbit thinks about warden call systems procurement. In 2023 and 2024 the project team carried out 4 training events and a workshop with Orbit's procurement team, and co-created guidelines for digital systems procurement which emphasized the importance of including circular economy principles in procurement specifications and pursuing a more cooperative approach to working with digital systems installers and developers. This has been a significant shift in the approach from a Plug and Play arrangement which previously characterised the relations between the suppliers, installers and the housing association. A related significant change is also creating more opportunities for the residents to feedback into the procurement specifications for the digital warden call systems in independent living schemes. This has come about because of the evidence provided by the project on the lack of understanding within schemes on how the technology works and its purpose. The resulting impact on the social housing provider Orbit is a new procurement direction which allows them to collect data on the degree of circularity offered on the market and the to understand the entry points for further circularity action with the installed and planned installations within the schemes. The social impact to independent living residents is more joined up thinking about their experiences and interactions with the warden call systems in the schemes. The updated procurement specifications ask providers for plans to include user experiences in the lifecycle of the technology. A key challenge in making these changes to the procurement specifications was the lack of understanding of circularity principles by the procurement team. This was addressed through several training sessions, producing detailed guidelines, a workshop with senior management to get their support and buy in, and a research brief. 2. REDUCING THE ENERGY DEMAND OF SERVERS WITHIN ORBIT. The energy and sustainability manager and IT manager of Orbit have initiated a pilot to understand the sensitivity of the digital warden call systems and servers to temperature changes. The pilot involves gradual reduction and switching off the AC units, initially in two office locations to understand what practical steps can be taken to establish an optimal relationship between AC units use and servers colling demand. The findings from the pilot are now integrated in the annual energy audits and will be rolled out across 10 independent living schemes in 2025. This was achieved through organising a training session and a workshop with the energy and sustainability manager and head of IT services for Orbit in 2023 and 2024, and regular senior management engagement throughout the duration of the project, and the production of evidence brief and recommendations. To address future scheme designs, we also engaged with the senior designer lead for Orbit in similar terms and Orbit has now introduced tailored server rooms in the design and retrofit of independent schemes. A key challenge in making these changes was the associated costs to Orbit and residents. The server rooms pilot was successful in identifying a potential savings of £9000 over the lifetime of a server. The key economic impact of the introduced changes are the reducing energy bills for Orbit and the residents who share these costs through service charges. 3. PROVIDING PROACTIVE DIGITAL SUPPORT FOR RESIDENTS IN INDEPENDENT ORBIT SCHEMES. The project key findings and sustained engagement with scheme managers, Orbit's senior management team, independent living team and residents of the three participating schemes led to a shift in digital support for resident from reactive to when issues were raised or encountered to co-developing a range of proactive activities to provide continued support for residents in living with digital technologies. A key finding from the project which was implemented across schemes in the South East (Hastings, Eastbourne) included building a data base of the people who support residents in using digital technologies (a group which the team has termed digital proxies). This data is collected through the introduction of digital priority registers which builds on the idea of priority registers for water and energy widely used across the UK. The use of digital priority registers will help Orbit and the scheme managers to collect data to support improved experiences for residents in using digital warden call systems, consumer technologies (i.e. Bluetooth speakers, smart watches) and assistive technologies (i.e. fall pendants, smart pads) and reduce the number of abandoned digital technologies by residents, due to lack of troubleshooting skills and knowledge. This will also improve the ability of Orbit, and health and care providers to support and work with residents individually in their homes in the provision of services. A key challenge in achieving this change was convincing Orbit of the gains to be made by shifting from providing ad hoc and 'as needed' digital support to residents towards a proactive and strategic engagement. A key element in achieving this was providing evidence and training about the extent to which scheme managers had to deal with digital technologies troubleshooting and digital misunderstandings among the residents about the main purpose of the Appello's warden call system (the majority of residents perceived it as a door opening system rather than a life saving system). The key benefit for residents is that they can rely on more joined up support in helping them use and troubleshoot digital technologies in their daily routines. In contrast, previously residents would often complicated existing digital technologies issues by involving multiple digital proxies who would change passwords and reset digital technologies without each other's knowledge. By knowing who the other digital proxies are for each resident, scheme managers can also share details about digital technologies changes and updates with the people most likely to support residents in using the technologies, providing quicker and more accessible support for them. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2024 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Environment,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal Economic |
| Description | A digital inclusion framework for health and care: Sussex A collaboration between NHS Sussex and the University of Sussex |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The framework is being applied across the NHS in the design, development and roll out of digital wards and is being used for training. Currently 40 NHS staff have been trained to use the framework. |
| Description | Contribution to DHSC and DLUHC call for evidence: Older People's Housing Taskforce |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/older-peoples-housing-taskforce-call-for-evidence |
| Description | Expert invited participant on UK Government (FCDO) delegation to Meghalaya State government, India |
| Geographic Reach | Asia |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Invited to address Heads of Research and innovation for Welsh universities |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Submission REF: ERT478736 Written evidence submission to the Communications and Digital Committee Inquiry into digital exclusion and the cost of living |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Written submission to the Labour National Policy Forum Consultation 2023 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | 'Warm and Well? Overcoming barriers to the use of smart energy technology in vulnerable homes using peer-to-peer learning with older people' |
| Amount | £79,141 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | Engagement for digital care innovation |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Impact and innovation awards |
| Amount | £4,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Unpacking the future of independent living together -design innovation |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Healthcare Engineering |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Institute of Healthcare Engineering Healthy Ageing Challenge Award: Empowering Infrastructures |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Intergenerational storytelling for homesharers: Harnessing digital story creation to support sustainable co-living during a cost-of-living crisis |
| Amount | £5,492 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sussex |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Research England Healthy Ageing Participatory Research Fund (HAPRF) |
| Amount | £8,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Unpacking the future of independent living together |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | UKRI EMERGENCE Network+ :CPD Ecosystems for wearable robotics |
| Amount | £28,166 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2023 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Collaboration with Ardia Digital Health Ltd. |
| Organisation | Ardia Digital Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Through a series of discussion meetings, we have provided insights to this health-tech SME start-up about how they can measure the environmental impacts of their app, MyRenalCare. We have shared our team's expertise on Life Cycle Analysis, and provided advisory support for a funding bid that the Ardia team submitted. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through a series of discussion meetings, the Ardia team have provided insights on how their eHealth app operates, and put our researchers in touch with relevant contacts who have direct experience of implementing the app. The team have also shared some quantitative data for a case study, which they prepared, and also spent time explaining to the research team. |
| Impact | Multi-disciplinary: Sociology; Environmental Studies (Life Cycle Assessment); Healthcare Studies. Outcomes: Empirical case study for the EIDS project work-package on eHealth (in progress). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Contribution to manuscript "Integrating circularity as an essential pillar of dairy farm sustainability" |
| Organisation | University of Santiago de Compostela |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Alejandro Gallego-Schmid and Raphael Tarpani contributed in 2022 to the development and writing of the above mentioned manuscript. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The main objective of the manuscript is to fill this gap in the literature by proposing a novel framework for the holistic integration of Circularity and Sustainability indicators, which was adapted to be applied in the dairy sector of Galicia, in Spain. The partners contributed in 2022 to the development and writing of the article in additional to its initial conceptualisation and raw data for the case study. |
| Impact | The manuscript cited above is finished and currently under review in the Journal of Cleaner production (Impact factor: 11.072 ), and it is expected to be published soon. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Contribution to the manuscript "Digital technologies: Description, classification and links to circular economy" |
| Organisation | University of AlmerÃa |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Alejandro Gallego-Schmid and Raphael Tarpani contributed in 2022 to the development and writing of the above mentioned manuscript. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The main objective of the manuscript is to fill this gap in the literature by analysing the links among circular economy and digital technologies. |
| Impact | The manuscript cited above is finished and currently under review in the Information & Management (Impact factor: 9.9). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Foundation of the UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Using UKRI impact accelerator account finance, and internal finance, UCL in late 2024 established the UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation. The centre is directed by Cian O'Donovan and builds on research, teaching, policy engagement and collaboration activities of O'Donovan, Stephen Hughes, Michel Wahome, Saheli Datta Burton, Melanie Smallman and Jack Stilgoe over the last 15 years. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The centre is three months in. So far collaborators have specificed an initial programme of engagements and activivities within UCL. This includes training activities for approximately 150 UKRI funded STEM phds, as well as reserach bid activity. Our first research win has been a new ESRC Metascience project that includes Stilgoe (PI) and O'Donovan (co-i). |
| Impact | None yet. |
| Start Year | 2024 |
| Description | Intergenerational storytelling for homesharers: Harnessing digital story creation to support sustainable co-living during a cost-of-living crisis |
| Organisation | University of Sussex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The partnership with three researchers at the University of Sussex was initiated during a Healthy Ageing workshop, to co-create projects toward the IAA Fast Track Engagement scheme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-creation of project, designing workshops, organising activity and engagement with Homeshare UK. |
| Impact | Briefing paper to come following workshop. The project includes a Professor of Developmental Psychology; a Reader in Behavioural Neuroscience and a Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design in the Department of Informatics, all at the University of Sussex. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Visiting Professor collaborating to the project during 6 months |
| Organisation | University of AlmerÃa |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Visiting Professor (Laura Piedra-Muñoz) from University of Almeria (Spain) collaborating to the manuscript about Circular Economy and Digital Technologies (already submitted to Technological Forecasting and Social Change Journal - Q1 Journal). |
| Collaborator Contribution | First author in the manuscript about Circular Economy and Digital Technologies (already submitted to Technological Forecasting and Social Change Journal - Q1 Journal). It is part of her placement as visiting Professor in the period 01/03/22 to 01/09/22. |
| Impact | First author in the manuscript about Circular Economy and Digital Technologies (already submitted to Technological Forecasting and Social Change Journal - Q1 Journal). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Warm and Well? (WaW) Overcoming barriers to the use of smart energy technology in vulnerable homes using peer-to-peer learning with older people' |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Department | School of Public Health |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration enabled the co-creation of the EPSRC IAA Innovation for a Smart Society bid (79,141.00). Dr Kate Simpson drafted the bid alongside the PI. The collaboration was developed following communication about the award via the Air Quality Network of Excellence, across Imperial College London, and the awareness of the Wellhome project the partner team are leading. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner researcher, based on the Wellhome project at the Environmental Research Group, Public Health assisted in the co-creation of the bid and are now contracting Dr Kate Simpson to undertake the work. This is enabling further partnerships to be formed between Public Health and the EIDS project team. |
| Impact | Videos, booklets and academic papers to come |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Assessing the environmental impacts and circularity of digital services for health and wellbeing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to audiences associated to "Sustainable Futures" platform at the University of Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wisz--dEEo&t=479s&ab_channel=SustainableFutures |
| Description | Bringing the Lab to Life - an in-conversation breakfast event exploring how Design Connects Science with Society. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cian O'Donovan was an invited panel member as part of a London Design Week talk about design and public engagement at the Francis Crick Institute, London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.londondesignfestival.com/activities/bringing-the-lab-to-life |
| Description | Can Robots Care? Edinburgh Science Festival workshop and public talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Can Robots Care? Edinburgh Science Festival workshop and public talk (Organiser and speaker) was an event organised as part of Edinburgh Science Festival 2023. The event feature material and insights from two UKRI projects. TAS Empowering future care workforces and EPSRC Enviornmental Impacts of Digital Services. The event was free and open to members of the public and consisted of a public talk and collaboration cafe which included technology demonstrations. 12 Apr 2023. The Bayes Centre. University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/festival/ |
| Description | Conference paper presentation: Evolving digital infrastructures in UK sheltered housing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Evolving digital infrastructures in UK sheltered housing Conference talk at Human Development and Capabilities Approach annual conference in Antwerp Paper presentation for forthcoming project paper. Powerpoint style. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://hd-ca.org/conferences/2022-hdca-conference-antwerp-belgium#anchor1 |
| Description | Conference presentation: Accountability and neglect in UK social care |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hybrid conference panel and paper presentation for forthcoming project paper. Powerpoint style. ~20 people as part of science and technology studies conference: Society for the Social Studies of Science annual global conference 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://4sonline.org/4s_2022_cholula.php |
| Description | Design of new UCL postgraduate and undergraduate module: The sociology and politics of the digital age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UKRI funded research was used extensively as case studies and theory development for this 10 week classroom taught module for undergrad and postgrad students at UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/file/13434 |
| Description | Digitalisation, Circular Economy and Infrastructure Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 30 people participated in this workshop, which delved into inquiries regarding the impact of circular economy and life cycle assessment on the future and sustainability of urban infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:l23a-lnlt266h-g5g3fh/digitalisation-circular-economy-and... |
| Description | Empowering research infrastructures - Building bridges between science and society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cian O'Donovan led a workshop for the UKRI Mindsets and Missions project, an effort to improve public engagement in science in museums and cultural spaces. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.museumsassociation.org/funding/mindsets-and-missions/ |
| Description | Environmental Impact of Digital technologies for health and wellbeing in the home (EIDs) project update |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Environmental Impact of Digital technologies for health and wellbeing in the home (EIDs) project update was delivered to 150 Support and Service Development staff at the away day of Orbit Housing Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Environmental impacts and circularity of online calls during research projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Platform presentation on the "3rd Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability" in Greece. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Environmental impacts of digital services for health and wellbeing in the home |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hybrid presentation to audiences associated to "Sustainable Futures" platform at the University of Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3aQOimqZo&t=18s&ab_channel=DigitalFutures |
| Description | Inaugural webinar presentation to the energy and digital RGS group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Delivered the inaugural lecture for the energy and digital webinar series. The presentation was titled "Digital and energy landscapes in independent living: the case of digital technologies for health and wellbeing in England" and presented the key finding of the project. Answered several questions about the project, which challenged conventional thinking. The presentation caused an animated discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
| URL | https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d259da84-719f-47f1-a398-25f9e0b5802d@5f35c3da-39ae-4632-9ac... |
| Description | Invited guest to Be Inspired: Improving homes to tackle the energy crisis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Spoke on podcast, received email contact following |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/241712/podcast-winter-viruses-being-engineer-improving/ |
| Description | Invited guest: Zero Ambitions Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Spoke with the podcast hosts about motivating home retrofit activity and the potentil rise in demand for comfort improvements needed in the home as more people with complex health needs are being cared for at home. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-motivates-retrofitters-with-retrofit-researcher/id1597753... |
| Description | Invited panel discussion at Museum of the Home, London: Tomorrow's Home - Conversation Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Smart connections' - webinar, Wednesday 24 November, 6 pm - 8 pm Tomorrow's Home 2050 is a free exhibition at the Museum of the Home in Hoxton, from Saturday 20 November to Sunday 9 January. Each week we're hosting talks based around one of the exhibition's themes - beginning with 'Connectivity'. "Hey Siri, tell me about smart devices" Smart devices - sometimes referred to as 'the internet of things' - are ubiquitous in our modern homes. From speakers, to doorbells and fridges, our home objects are connected to the internet, communicating with each other, and sharing data. Creepy or convenient? Hear from our experts as they explore the possibilities and pitfalls of smart devices. Mini talks by: Too close to home? A discussion of creepiness in domestic technologies. Ava Scott. Smart but scary home? What smart devices mean for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Leonie Tanczer Living inside a smartphone. Professor Danny Miller Connecting what matters most - data lessons from the pandemic. Dr Cian O'Donovan What would the future of home healthcare look like? Dr Mine Orlu Biohackers, the future is calling. Mariam Elgabry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/77148 |
| Description | Invited panel discussion: Unlock Net Zero, Tackling carbon reduction and disrepair through strategic asset management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Around 200 industry attendees with many questions and concerns relating their strategies and decisions on net zero, digital technologies, energy demand, air quality, health and safety risks and maintenance scheduling. Follow-up invite to a retrofit event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.unlocknetzero.co.uk/webinars/tackling-carbon-reduction-and-disrepair-through-strategic-a... |
| Description | Invited panel member: UCL Tomorrows's Home conversations: Hearts, Minds and Digital Technology @Home |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Shared insights from the immersive workshop titled 'within the Tomorrow's Home exhitbition at The Museum of the Home. This opened up creative re-imaginings of meaningful encounters with digital services in the home, for householders with particular needs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/healthcare-engineering/home/tomorrows-home-2050/tomorrows-home-online-conversa... |
| Description | Invited presentation_Zero Carbon Yorkshire Buildings Group_Retrofit our homes to tackle multiple crises |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attended by around 100 attendees interested in safe and healthy transitions of the home, toward net zero. Kicked off the event titleed 'Making Retrofit happen in Yorkshire'. Shared insight on fuel poverty risks for vulnerable groups and the need to ensure digital and energy technologies work for the resident. Suggested collaboration with adaptation services. Sparked discussion and knowledge sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://zerocarbonyorkshire.org/working-groups/low-carbon-buildings/ |
| Description | Invited talk: Empowering infrastructures in UK sheltered housing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk: empowering infrastructures in UK sheltered housing Invited talk at Sensors Data 2022, University of Cambridge Paper presentation for forthcoming project paper. Powerpoint style. Mixed with wider reflections on the role of sensors in our homes and research ~100 experts in sensors technology from Cambirdge CDT, also representatives from sensors industries and UKRI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://cdt.sensors.cam.ac.uk/events/sensors-day-2022 |
| Description | Invited video and blog: Retrofit homes to tackle multiple crises, via the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Content shared via The Grantham Institute for Climate Change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/241373/retrofit-homes-tackle-multiple-crises/ |
| Description | Lassoing unicorns: how to map capabilities for better interdisciplinary research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sometimes doing interdisciplinary work feels like trying to lasso unicorns. Working with big players from foreign disciplines and interdepartmental drifters. Negotiating over language and frameworks. Agreeing common research questions. All the while trying to gather data and do good work. Building on methods developed in ESRC and Horizon 2020 funded projects on interdisciplinary research, this workshop will: a) introduce the concept interdisciplinary capabilities - the disciplinary skills and informal aptitudes needed for people like environmental engineers, ecological economists and machine learning developers to work well together. b) present a mixed-method approach to mapping capabilities using bibliometric analysis and interviews. c) offer hands-on reflexive exercises on personal 'capability mapping', tailored to workshop participants The session will help scholars of all levels recognise power and knowledge in research and identify opportunities to steer that research together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://keepfaking.it/workshop-human-capabilities-for-interdisciplinary-research/ |
| Description | Life Cycle Assessment principles |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | LCA principles and introduction in the context of EIDS project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Life cycle environmental impacts of digital services / Orbit Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In this Workshop the main goal is to introduce LCA principles and preliminary results and assumptions made to estimate the environmental impacts of the digital service to Orbit. The second part is a Workshop to understand and interpret their futures plans to improve the service in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Lunch and Learn Workshop on Life Cycle Assessment: Material and Product-centred |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The workshop aimed to increase engagement and knowledge about Life cycle assessment by postgrad researchers at the University of Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:o18k-lfibc5de-gna6ve/life-cycle-assessment-lca-lunch-and... |
| Description | Online discussion session with the Academic Health Sciences Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The online session consisted of a series of presentations and discussions as part of "The Academic Health Sciences Network - NetZero Supplier Briefing Session". 51 attendees participated, including: Health-tech companies, especially SMEs; NGOs; researchers; and members of the Academic Health Sciences Network. There were lively discussions of how the NHS can achieve its net zero goals, including methodological/measurement challenges, and examples of best practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Panel speaker at Housing Brighton conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented key findings from the project and took part in a panel discussion as part of the Housing Brighton session on 'Utilising technology to decarbonise housing stock' from 13:30-14:20 on 8 May 2024. The audience included 48 people. The presentation and the panel discussion resulted in an engaging discussion about the importance of building server rooms for reducing the environmental impact of digital technologies. Several professional practitioners requested further information about the findings and reported changing their minds about the importance of server rooms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Panel talk: Imagining the home of the future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel talk: Imagining the home of the future (online) This lunch hour lecture as part of UCL's prestegious Lunch Hour Lecture series brings together the diverse voices who helped to create the story behind the Tomorrow's Home exhibition which was co-organised by this project.. ~50 UCL internal people with a handful of external co-creation partners all interested to hear how we got on with the Musuem of the Home exhibition. This was a panel event with other members of the wider museum exhibition team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHx9_iqvl1I |
| Description | Participation in symposium: Bridging the Gap: Net Zero |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The event's purpose was to engage with NHS stakeholders in the field of Net Zero initiatives. During the event, a team member discussed current and future policies related to Net Zero with key professional stakeholders in the NHS and related organisations. Our discussion focused on sharing knowledge and strategies for sustainable healthcare, which sparked email conversations afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participation in symposium: THIS Space 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the event was to share learning on what works in healthcare improvement, what doesn't, and why. A key theme was improving environmental sustainability in the NHS. A team member discussed insights and experiences on this with a range of stakeholders, especially those working in the NHS. As a result, we organised a follow-up meeting with another attendee (a consultant in the NHS) and shared outputs from our research to inform their practice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Participative workshop in Brighton care home as part of Social care week festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | ~16 people attended a participative workshop on the possibilities for living with digital technologies in care settings in the future. The attendees were mostly older residents of the care home in which the event took place. Also attending were some staff. This was a highly participative event which was also entertaining for participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation and panel: Connection, comfort & control: older peoples' perspective on technology retrofits at home, Maing (A) Mends (Tampere, Finland) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Virtually presented within a session focused on older people, housing and co-creation. Joined panel afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.atut.fi/programme2 |
| Description | Presentation at international conference ISNGI 2022 in Rotterdam |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk titled "Digital infrastructure transformation, healthy ageing and independent living: unpacking the inclusion challenges" at the Special Session 3C: Critical Infrastructure Resilience, on 9th September 2022 in Rotterdam, part of the International Symposium of Next Generation Infrastructure (ISNGI). The discussion involved participants from the World Bank, National Infrastructure Commission, digital companies, policy makers and infrastructure providers from the Netherlands and across Europe, including the UK. We received requests for more information from the World Bank and a Dutch Digital company. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://isngi.org/events/special-sessions/ |
| Description | Public webinar: The Future of Social Care Technology - Robotics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Cian O'Donovan appeared on an expert panel for Digital Social Care, the advocay organisation for technology in care settings. Here's the blurb: From robot cleaners and companions to exoskeletons, there have been numerous pilots world wide on how robots could be used in social care. In this session, we are joined by care providers who have started to use robots in their own organisations and experts in the field of robotics to discuss what is happening now and what the future might be. Who should attend? These sessions have been designed for adult social care providers in England and are aimed at people who make decisions about the use of technology in care services. This might include: Owners Registered Managers Nurses Care Staff Administrators IT Professionals Quality & Compliance Leads Commissioners Care Associations People who use care and support services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-social-care-technology-robotics-tickets-490428022417 |
| Description | Public workshop: Reimagining Tomorrow's Home when I'm older |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | ~15 people, diverse public participation and engagement workshop. In this collaborative, interactive and fun workshop we'll try and answer some of these questions together. Participants will explore the Museum of the Home's new Tomorrow's Home exhibition. They'll use ideas from the exhibition of what a home in 2050 might look like to inspire creative re-imaginings of what their home needs to be. Often this kind of thinking about our future lives and technologies and services is done behind closed doors in universities of big companies. In this workshop we want to open-up thinking about future homes and everyone's invited. The workshop is designed for anyone 18 or over that has an interest in the home and our place in it. You don't need to do anything in advance, and you'll be fully briefed on the day. People from across London are invited and we are especially interested in welcoming neighbours from Hackney and surrounding areas. And if there's anything we can do to help improve your access or participation in the workshop on the day, please let us know. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tomorrows-home-session-reimagining-tomorrows-home-when-im-older-ticke... |
| Description | The Future of Social Care Technology - Implementing Robotics & AI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Cian O'Donovan spoke at an online practioners forum for social care professional: 6 Mar 2023 run by Digital Social Care. O'Donovan used examples of empirical material and theory development from UKRI projects TAS Empowering Future Care Workforces and EPSRC Environmental Impacts of Digital Services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future-of-social-care-technology-implementing-robotics-ai-tickets... |
| Description | Trustee to Care and Repair, Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Attend quarterly board meeting for Care & Repair, Leeds. Inform their decision making toward the integration of energy efficiency retrofit with home adapation services to assist people cared for at home. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://care-repair-leeds.org.uk/about/trustees/ |
| Description | Workshop with different departments and services developers within Orbit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The workshop brought together 15 people representing 11 different departments within Orbit who have previously not been involved with the project directly. The workshop introduced the key learnings and findings from the first stage of the project (on how residents use digital technologies for health and wellbeing in the home) and provided training based on these. As a result of the workshop the research teams is co-developing a protocol for housing and cooling servers within existing schemes and identifying technical requirements for reducing the environmental impact of digital technologies in the schemes for new builds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |