Design of Assistive Technology for Ageing Populations

Designing with and for older people.- A user centred approach to digitalising care homes.- Contemporary themes in the design of AT for the ageing population: materiality, codesign and cultural influences.- The value and place for empathy in designing for older people.- The value and place for empathy in designing for older people.- Assistive Technology Usability and Adoption: Future drivers.

Professor Andree Woodcock  holds a Chair in Educational Ergonomics and Design and is located in the Centre for Mobility and Transport. She has been awarded grants in excess of £10 million since I came to Coventry University in 1999, mainly from RCUK and in collaboration with UK and European partners. These have included research on the design of polysensory school environments for children with ASD, an analysis of the involvement of children in the redesign of schools as part of the Building Schools for the Future Programme, the use of social networking by informal groups, the spontaneous, voluntary contrbutions of citizens to urban regeneration (VoiceYourView), and the development of a patient held record system (MyCare).She has developed a user testing toolkit for SMEs (IDEAL-ALIP project) and a decision support system for SMEs moving into the assistive technology market (COMODAL).Transport related research has included looking at the in car safety and security of female caroccupants, an analysis of HMI of electric vehicles, an stakeholder analysis of an electric bus, a review of social transport and the leadership of an FP7 project to develop a Pan European tool to measure the quality of the passenger experience (METPEX). She currently leads a 4 year H2020CIVITAS pproject looking at capacity building in small to medium local authorities wishing to implement sustainable transport measures.She is also currently building a portfolio of work Prof McDonagh on empathic design and ageing.Dr Louise Moody is the Associate Head for Research, and Reader in User-Centred Health Design in the School of Art and Design at Coventry University. She has a background in psychology and human factors that has been applied predominantly to design for health. Her research is focused on the development of products, interventions and services to benefit health and wellbeing. She employs a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods as well as art and design approaches to