TRUMP: A Trusted Mobile Platform for the Self-Management of Chronic Illness in Rural Areas
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Aberdeen
Department Name: Computing Science
Abstract
Chronic diseases are now the leading causes of death in both developing and developed countries. Such conditions include diabetes, asthma, arthritis, heart failure, COPD, dementia and a range of disabling psychological conditions such as depression. In the UK the cost of care of people with chronic conditions consumes the majority of health and social care resources, for example, accounting for over 80% of GP consultations. While the UK and India have very different practices and structures for healthcare delivery, the effective management of chronic illness is a priority for both countries. Patients in rural areas, however, present particular challenges that neither country's healthcare systems are well configured to address. This issue is particularly relevant to India with 71% of the population in rural areas. While less than 1 in 5 of the UK population are rural dwellers, large parts of the country are sparsely populated; for example in Scotland, 29% of the population live in rural areas. Rural healthcare inequality in both countries arises from a number of factors, including transport costs and the inaccessibility of specialist services.
The goal of the TRUMP project is to explore the potential of mobile technologies in the development of a platform to support chronic disease management by simultaneously considering the needs of rural areas of India and the UK. Trust in such systems is vital if they are be accepted by patients and health workers alike, and this issue will form a central part of the development of the platform. Two common chronic conditions, diabetes and depression, have been chosen as exemplars for the development of the platform and its evaluation.
TRUMP is a multidisciplinary project involving academic researchers from the UK and India, together with partner organisations drawn from the business and community sectors. Working together, this team will: perform a detailed analysis of the healthcare context, design sustainable technology solutions compatible with local and national healthcare policies; incorporate existing proven chronic management programmes and training. This implies support for novel patient record systems, mechanisms for tracking the patient (symptoms and behaviour), as well as patient awareness of self-management.
The goal of the TRUMP project is to explore the potential of mobile technologies in the development of a platform to support chronic disease management by simultaneously considering the needs of rural areas of India and the UK. Trust in such systems is vital if they are be accepted by patients and health workers alike, and this issue will form a central part of the development of the platform. Two common chronic conditions, diabetes and depression, have been chosen as exemplars for the development of the platform and its evaluation.
TRUMP is a multidisciplinary project involving academic researchers from the UK and India, together with partner organisations drawn from the business and community sectors. Working together, this team will: perform a detailed analysis of the healthcare context, design sustainable technology solutions compatible with local and national healthcare policies; incorporate existing proven chronic management programmes and training. This implies support for novel patient record systems, mechanisms for tracking the patient (symptoms and behaviour), as well as patient awareness of self-management.
Planned Impact
Patients, Families & Medical Practitioners
An essential element of the research programme proposed is engagement with real patients, their families and medical practitioners in both the UK and India. This is an important means to evaluate the research being conducted, but also presents key opportunities to develop effective relationships with important stakeholders. There is an opportunity for the research to influence professional practice in healthcare regarding the use of m-health solutions through an understanding of the applicability of technological interventions, the clinical benefits of these interventions, and their cost effectiveness and sustainability.
Influencing Policy
Underpinning this research is the goal to influence public policy such that m-health interventions are considered beneficial and cost effective. This is a rationale behind the membership of the advisory board summarised in the proposal. The project team has an excellent track record in this area; for example, the proposed research dovetails with a multidisciplinary protocol development group, encompassing researchers and health care consumers, funded by the Scottish Chief Scientist's Office and led by applicant Cameron.
Developing Capacity
A number of Indian NGOs will be working closely with academic and research staff to run pilot studies; this will directly contribute to enhancing the research skills within those organisations. Commercial software partners will be exposed through the project to expertise in a range of non-technical disciplines, increasing their awareness of the clinical, technical and socio-economic challenges facing m-health deployments, and enhancing their ability to deliver effective solutions; they will also be exposed to a range of emerging technologies through close working with academic partners.
Wider Public
There is a great deal of public anxiety about electronic patient record (EPR) systems in the UK; for example the recent Royal Academy of Engineering report Privacy and Prejudice noted: "Young people have significant concerns regarding EPRs. These arise due to the perceived weaknesses of an EPR system, including both the robustness (or not) of the technology and the potential errors that will be made by the users." There is thus an opportunity through TRUMP to engage with this complex socio-technical issue. Project team members in India have good links with the e-government and national identity card initiatives, and will use these forums to engage with the wider rural community across the different states to educate the citizens on the benefits of m-health.
Research Staff Development
The interdisciplinary nature of the research proposed will provide valuable opportunities for research staff employed on the project to develop and understanding of the research questions and challenges of other disciplines as well as different methods and techniques used. Specific and generic training, including ethics training, offered by each participating institution and by the research team itself will support this. The international dimension of the project will also benefit the development of researchers by exposing them to different research cultures and perspectives.
Commercialisation
The project is supported by the involvement of IBM in both the UK and India, and by ZMQ in India. This both aids the research, and provides an important means to commercialise and exploit the technologies developed within the project. As stated by Dr Peter Waggett (IBM Hursley) in his supporting letter "the inclusion of [his] involvement in this research programme will ensure that the transition route will be accelerated and grounded in best practice from industry". Similarly, ZMQ Software, as highlighted in their supporting letter, will bring significant expertise in the deployment of mobile-based solutions for development, introducing a route for exploitation in the context of their "Mobile for Development" initiative.
An essential element of the research programme proposed is engagement with real patients, their families and medical practitioners in both the UK and India. This is an important means to evaluate the research being conducted, but also presents key opportunities to develop effective relationships with important stakeholders. There is an opportunity for the research to influence professional practice in healthcare regarding the use of m-health solutions through an understanding of the applicability of technological interventions, the clinical benefits of these interventions, and their cost effectiveness and sustainability.
Influencing Policy
Underpinning this research is the goal to influence public policy such that m-health interventions are considered beneficial and cost effective. This is a rationale behind the membership of the advisory board summarised in the proposal. The project team has an excellent track record in this area; for example, the proposed research dovetails with a multidisciplinary protocol development group, encompassing researchers and health care consumers, funded by the Scottish Chief Scientist's Office and led by applicant Cameron.
Developing Capacity
A number of Indian NGOs will be working closely with academic and research staff to run pilot studies; this will directly contribute to enhancing the research skills within those organisations. Commercial software partners will be exposed through the project to expertise in a range of non-technical disciplines, increasing their awareness of the clinical, technical and socio-economic challenges facing m-health deployments, and enhancing their ability to deliver effective solutions; they will also be exposed to a range of emerging technologies through close working with academic partners.
Wider Public
There is a great deal of public anxiety about electronic patient record (EPR) systems in the UK; for example the recent Royal Academy of Engineering report Privacy and Prejudice noted: "Young people have significant concerns regarding EPRs. These arise due to the perceived weaknesses of an EPR system, including both the robustness (or not) of the technology and the potential errors that will be made by the users." There is thus an opportunity through TRUMP to engage with this complex socio-technical issue. Project team members in India have good links with the e-government and national identity card initiatives, and will use these forums to engage with the wider rural community across the different states to educate the citizens on the benefits of m-health.
Research Staff Development
The interdisciplinary nature of the research proposed will provide valuable opportunities for research staff employed on the project to develop and understanding of the research questions and challenges of other disciplines as well as different methods and techniques used. Specific and generic training, including ethics training, offered by each participating institution and by the research team itself will support this. The international dimension of the project will also benefit the development of researchers by exposing them to different research cultures and perspectives.
Commercialisation
The project is supported by the involvement of IBM in both the UK and India, and by ZMQ in India. This both aids the research, and provides an important means to commercialise and exploit the technologies developed within the project. As stated by Dr Peter Waggett (IBM Hursley) in his supporting letter "the inclusion of [his] involvement in this research programme will ensure that the transition route will be accelerated and grounded in best practice from industry". Similarly, ZMQ Software, as highlighted in their supporting letter, will bring significant expertise in the deployment of mobile-based solutions for development, introducing a route for exploitation in the context of their "Mobile for Development" initiative.
Organisations
- University of Aberdeen (Lead Research Organisation)
- Grampian Opportunities (Collaboration)
- Lancaster University (Collaboration)
- International Institute of Information Technology (Collaboration)
- BMCE Networks Ltd (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad (Collaboration)
- dot.rural Digital Economy Hub (Project Partner)
- IBM Research - India (Project Partner)
- ZMQ Software Systems (India) (Project Partner)
- IBM (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Withnell R
(2012)
Towards a Multihomed GSM Gateway
Rahulamathavan, Yogachandran
(2016)
Communications (ICC), 2016 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE
Withnell R
(2014)
Multipath Dissemination for Collaborative Mobile Internet Access
Agrawal S
(2014)
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Conferences
Rahulamathavan Y
(2015)
Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Access Control Scheme for Mobile Environment,
Withnell Richard
(2016)
Cooperative resource pooling in multihomed mobile networks
Withnell R
(2015)
Towards a Context Aware Multipath-TCP
Withnell R
(2013)
Multipath-TCP: Towards an Improved Architecture for Search and Rescue
Burnett C
(2014)
TRAAC: Trust and risk aware access control
Jaffray M
(2014)
Why do patients discontinue antidepressant therapy early? A qualitative study.
in The European journal of general practice
Arsalan, Muhammad,
(2017)
Soft Computing
in Soft Computing
Nahar P
(2017)
At the margins of biomedicine: the ambiguous position of 'Registered Medical Practitioners' in rural Indian healthcare.
in Sociology of health & illness
Rahulamathavan Y
(2014)
Privacy-preserving clinical decision support system using Gaussian kernel-based classification.
in IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Weerasinghe D
(2013)
Secure trust delegation for sharing patient medical records in a mobile environment
in Health Policy and Technology
Li F
(2015)
Robust access control framework for mobile cloud computing network
in Computer Communications
Nahar P
(2017)
mHealth and the management of chronic conditions in rural areas: a note of caution from southern India.
in Anthropology & medicine
Description | The project has developed insights into the challenges of delivering rural healthcare solutions in the UK and India, a range of software technologies to support trusted management of personal information. |
Exploitation Route | Software technologies (many of which are opensource) can be utilised by a range of industries, or could be built upon by other researchers. Policy makers could utilise the insights into rural healthcare delivery. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Healthcare |
Description | Project outcomes led directly to a greater understanding of e-health interventions in rural India influencing our partners at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad (IIPHH). A variety of new software technologies emerged, spanning data encryption and access control and sensor data management. An unexpected development involved use of the project's sensor management platform as part of an investigation into the use of the Internet of Things to monitor food safety compliance in commercial restaurant kitchens; funded by the UK's Food Standards Agency. |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Healthcare |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Contribution to UK Government Verify.UK Programme |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Impact | We have contributed to the UK Government's Verify.UK programme in the area of identity and privacy management. We have helped in the development of the UK Government's identity assurance programme whereby we have defined the trust management framework with different levels of trust. This will help the Verify.UK scheme to work in a federated environment by working closely with the private sector including the banks, identity providers, post office and Verisign. |
Description | Future of Identity expert panel meeting |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | TRUMP Team Member contributed to the future of identity expert panel meeting which was organized by the Government office of Science. This drafted the next 10 year challenges in the area of using different identity attributes for identity management. The report that was published as part of this panel was prepared as the Foresight report in the area of future of identity. |
Description | British Council |
Amount | £125,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | British Council |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2017 |
End | 05/2020 |
Description | Internet of Things & Food Safety (FSA) |
Amount | £23,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Research Councils UK (RCUK) |
Department | IT as a Utility Network+ |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2015 |
End | 03/2016 |
Description | REACH |
Amount | € 419,000 (EUR) |
Organisation | European Commission |
Sector | Public |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Start | 12/2014 |
End | 12/2018 |
Description | Trust, Identity, Privacy & Security in the Digital Economy [Trusted Things and Communities: Understanding & Enabling A Trusted IoT Ecosystem] |
Amount | £809,735 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/N028074/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2016 |
End | 08/2019 |
Description | Trusted Things & Communities: Understanding & Enabling A Trusted IoT Ecosystem |
Amount | £1,100,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/N028155/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2016 |
End | 06/2019 |
Title | Healthcare Data Attitudes Survey Database |
Description | Results of a survey of over 300 people into attitudes around sensitivity and sharing of healthcare information. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Results have influenced thinking in terms of our trusted information architecture for management of personal health data. |
Title | Lightweight ABE algorithm |
Description | Lightweight cryptographic algorithm to use in mobile healthcare |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Lots of interest shown from fellow researchers |
Description | TRUMP - Grampian Opportunities |
Organisation | Grampian Opportunities |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Focus groups held by research team with members of Grampian Opportunities support network which helped stimulate thinking on both sides. |
Collaborator Contribution | Grampian Opportunities (GO) supports disabled people and people with mental health problems have choice and control in their lives. Members attended research team events and recruited other participants for focus groups. |
Impact | Partner is non-academic. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | TRUMP - IIIT-Bangalore |
Organisation | International Institute of Information Technology |
Country | India |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Access to our thinking on trusted information infrastructures, including work on provenance enabled personal data management, risk-aware access control. We have also provided IIIT-B with access to software prototypes. |
Collaborator Contribution | Colleagues at IIIT-B are providing expertise to support development of a trusted information architecture to manage personal health data; their particular emphasis is on possible worlds knowledge models. |
Impact | Collaborators from IIIT-B are computer scientists and their primary interactions are with other computer scientists at the University of Aberdeen; they are however part of the much larger (and highly multi-disciplinary) TRUMP project. |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | TRUMP - IIPH - Hyderabad |
Organisation | Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad |
Country | India |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | UK-based team members have spent time training local researchers to conduct fieldwork activities, and have spent time working in the field jointly with IIPH-Hyderabad colleagues. |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to fieldwork areas in rural India (Guntur); support for UK researchers working in India (translators, local researchers); assistance with processing data. |
Impact | Activities in progress. |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | TRUMP PhD Studentship |
Organisation | Lancaster University |
Department | School of Computing and Communications |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Funded PhD Studentship |
Collaborator Contribution | Hosted and supervised studentship |
Impact | 5 publications (including a thesis). |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | TRUMP studentship: BMCE Networks |
Organisation | BMCE Networks Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provision of improved resource utilization in mobile video delivery. |
Collaborator Contribution | Liaised with emergency services through BMCE Networks and Gaist to inform direction of research and provide realistic use cases. Partners provided platform to enable deployment/evaluation of technology. |
Impact | Series of publications and Multipath Dissemination Protocol Daemon - items are listed elsewhere in researchFish. |
Start Year | 2012 |
Title | Card sort survey application |
Description | Web application for conducting online surveys using a drag-and-drop card sorting method. Available as open-source via the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | It has enabled the production of large quantities of research data. |
URL | https://github.com/chrisburnett/AttitudeSurvey |
Title | Lightweight ABE |
Description | Lightweight cryptographic algorithm to use in mobile healthcare |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | Several requests from fellow researchers to use the algorithms |
Title | Multipath Dissemination Protocol Daemon Software |
Description | Multipath Dissemination Protocol Daemon. - Linux implementation to share multipath connectivity information and configure devices. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | None known |
URL | http://github.com/richardwithnell/mpdd |
Title | Provenance Policies Framework |
Description | Experimental framework and implementation of the PolProv (Policies and Provenance) system, with medical example scenario. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | No specific impacts to report. |
URL | https://github.com/chrisburnett/PolicyProvenance |
Title | TRAAC Framework and Simulator |
Description | Experimental framework and implementation of the TRAAC (Trust and Risk Aware Access Conrol) model |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Cited in published work on the TRAAC model. |
URL | https://github.com/chrisburnett/TRAAC-Simulator |
Title | TRUMP module for OpenMRS |
Description | Module for the OpenMRS medical record platform, implementing XACML-based access control. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | No specific impacts to report at this time. |
URL | https://github.com/chrisburnett/Trump-Module |
Description | Brightclub |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 110 members of the public attended a stand-up comedy night to inform/entertain them about research. No direct feedback received, but the people in attendance appeared to enjoy the event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/events/techfest-2014-bright-club |
Description | Can mobile phone technology assist people living with diabetes or depression? Talk for Association of Social Anthropologists |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at Association of Social Anthropologists Decennial Conference, Edinburgh, June 2014, followed by questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Digital Futures 2012 - Risk-Aware Access Control for Electronic Health Records |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | A paper was presented at the Third RCUK Digital Economy All Hands Conference (Digital Futures 2012), Aberdeen, UK, 2012. Title: Risk-Aware Access Control for Electronic Health Records [L. Chen, M.J. Kollingbaum, T.J. Norman & P. Edwards, ] No specific impacts to report. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Digital, Countryside, Life workshop at Newtonhill School |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Delivering two interactive workshops with a total of 25 pupils (10-12 years) and 2 teachers at Newtonhills Primary School, Aberdeenshire. The workshops involved 1 PhD student and 3 postdoctoral researchers, along with the Hub Outreach Officer talking about their research and associated dot.rural projects through interactive activities with small groups of pupils. None known to date. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Initial anthropological insights on trust from multi-disciplinary research in South India |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Results presented to colleagues at IIPH-Hyderabad, May 2014 . No specific impacts reported |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Initial anthropological insights on trust from multi-disciplinary research in South India - IIPH-Hyderabad |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Initial anthropological insights on trust from multi-disciplinary research in South India followed by discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | MAGic2015 Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk "At the Margins of Biomedicine: The Ambiguous Position of Registered Medical Practitioners in Rural Indian Healthcare" given at MAGic2015 - Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice followed by discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | May Festival: Digital, Countryside, Life Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Members of research teams across the RCUK Digital Economy portfolio participated in an open afternoon during the University's May Festival. The drop-in event enabled members of the public to see demos, talk to researchers, see outputs of researchers, give opinions on topical issues and try out technologies developed. Around 100 people visited during the 2 hour activity. None yet to report |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Mood Under the Microscope, May Fest, University of Aberdeen 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Participation in Open Day "Mood Under the Microscope" as part of the public facing May Fest, University of Aberdeen 2014. Explained the work of the TRUMP project to the public and answered questions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Participation in Making Healthcare Data Sustainable: Challenges and Opportunities for the Semantic Web Workshop |
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 | 12 participants (mixture of NHS clinicians and computing science researchers) participated in a meeting to identify and understand the opportunities for computing science in making healthcare data sustainable. Participants included Drs David Corsar, Gemma Webster, Liang Chen and Chris Burnett. Change of practice within institution resulting from conversations that took place during meeting that would not have occurred otherwise. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Presentation at ASA14 Decennial: Anthropology and Enlightenment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | TRUMP work was presented at a leading anthropological conference (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth). Title: Can mobile phone technology assist people living with diabetes or depression? Initial insights on trust from multi-disciplinary research in south India No specific impacts to report. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2702 |
Description | Presentation at Academic Primary Care Annual Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Two posters about TRUMP research were presented to a meeting of the Society for Academic Primary Care in Glasgow. No specific impacts to report. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.sapc.ac.uk/index.php/recentconfs/conf2012 |
Description | Presentation at Health Informatics Scotland 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented a paper at Health Informatics Scotland 2013, hosted by British Computer Society, at Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh. Title: TRUMP: a trustworthy platform for mobile self-management interventions [C Burnett et al] Not aware of any specific impacts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/his/events/health-informatics-scotland-conference-2013.aspx |
Description | Presentation at Health Informatics Scotland 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented a paper at Health Informatics Scotland 2014, hosted by British Computer Society, at The Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow. Title: Exploring Public Attitudes to Sensitivity and Sharing of Health Data (Chris Burnett, Peter Edwards, Timothy Norman and Mariesha Jaffray) Presentation led to discussion about our dataset of public attitudes to healthcare data. No specific details to report at this time. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/his/events/health-informatics-scotland-conference-2014.aspx |
Description | Presentation at IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks - LCN2014 (Canada) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Research results were presented to interesting audience. Title: Lightweight Static and Dynamic Attributes Based Access Control Scheme for Secure Data Access in Mobile Environment Citations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.ieeelcn.org/prior/LCN39/index.html |
Description | Presentation at IEEEMobileCloud2013 (USA) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Research results were presented to interesting audience. Title: Low Complexity Multi-Authority Attribute Based Encryption Scheme for Mobile Cloud Computing Citations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/gaojerry/IEEEMobileCloud2013/ |
Description | Presentations to Scottish Enterprise: Head of Digital Economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentations on the RuralPAWS (Hasan Hamdoun), FITS (John Nelson), Social Journeys (David Corsar), CURIOS (Gemma Webster) and TRUMP (Pete Edwards) projects were given to Dr Ian Blewett, Head of Digital Economy, Scottish Enterprise. This led to planning a follow-up meeting and requests for further information particularly related to policy relevant work. None yet to report |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Research Visit to Padova University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Knowledge transfer between City University London and Padova University. Research collaboration established between City University London and Padova University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.math.unipd.it/~conti/ |
Description | TRUMP poster at RCUK-India 5th Anniversary Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A poster about the TRUMP UK-India collaboration was presented at the RCUK in India 5th anniversary event held in New Delhi, November 2013. It led to discussions with Indian academic colleagues, representatives of the UK research councils, FCO, etc. Following the event, we received requests for further information about the project from a representative of the British Medical Journal. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Talk by Prof Pete Edwards at Walmart Labs, Bangalore, India, February 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Pete Edwards gave a talk "Towards and Intelligent Information Infrastructure" at Walmart Labs, Bangalore (the IT group for Walmart Group across the globe) followed by questions and discussion. This was followed by a small group meeting with the Head of e-commerce for India. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Talk by Prof Pete Edwards at Wipro, Banglore, India February 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Pete Edwards gave a talk on "Towards and Intelligent Information Infrastructure" at Wipro Staff including the Chief Technology Officer and other colleagues in Bangalore, India. The talk was followed by questions and discussion, and a small group meeting with the CTO and other senior staff followed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Transforming through digital innovation, Scientia Magazine |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Transforming through digital innovation is an article about the work of the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub in Scientia Issue 2. The article highlights 5 individual dot.rural projects. Scientia a magazine published by the University of Aberdeen to promote its research to various audiences. The dot.rural article can be found on pages 35-37. None known to date |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/documents/Scientia_magazine2013.pdf. |
Description | UK-India business event at the BT Head Office |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | To improve understanding of others' thinking. More than 100 people participated and contributed to the debate about using mobiles in government and industry. Indian businesses are interested in some of the products from UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Visit from European Centre for Environment and Human Health (University of Exeter Medical School) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | TRUMP was presented to directors of the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (Exeter) Led to discussions about possible future joint-working between Aberdeen and Exeter. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | What the NHS can learn from the smartphone on data consent, The Conversation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Article on The Conversation (5/2/2014) by Dr Chris Burnett and Dr Edoardo Pignotti responding to controversy around the NHS care.data programme, read by over 900 people (November 2014) None yet known |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://theconversation.com/what-the-nhs-can-learn-from-the-smartphone-on-data-consent-22464 |