Call for participation of manufacturers: Activity trackers for older people, carers and people being cared for

Photos from our workshop with carers and manufacturers on 16 June 2017 (courtesy: Dr Duncan Banks, The Open University, UK)

Project

The Open University (OU), UK, in collaboration with Oxford University, Age UK Milton Keynes and Carers Milton Keynes, is involved in a research programme related to digital health wearables for older people, carers, and people being cared for. 

The research programme consists of two projects. 

  • The first project was funded by Sir Halley Stewart Trust and a poster based on the research carried out on one of the strands of this project is here
  • The details of the second ESRC-funded project in this research programme are in this pdf. This project is focussed on knowledge exchange with a variety of stakeholders including manufacturers of digital health wearables.

Workshop on 16th June 2017

As a part of the ESRC-funded project, we organised a multi-stakeholder workshop with 16 attendees involving the project team, carers and manufacturers on 16th June from 10 am to 13:15 at the OU's campus in Milton Keynes.

The aim of this workshop was to link up the requirements and expectations of older people, carers and people that we have collected so far in the Sir Halley Stewart Trust-funded project, with manufacturers and policy makers in a multi-way knowledge exchange. Our (the research team's) objective  is to influence the usability and service design of digital wearables for older people, carers and people being cared for based on the evidence that we have consolidated in our empirical research

Series of multi-stakeholder knowledge exchange workshops

This workshop is a part of series of workshops that we will be organising on this project until the end of this year. 

Are you a manufacturer of digital health wearables?

If you are a manufacturer of digital health wearables and would like to participate in one of our workshops, please do contact us by email: digital.health.wearables@gmail.com or shailey.minocha@open.ac.uk