Motivating mobility: Interactive systems to promote physical activity and leisure for people with limited mobility
Motivating Mobility - Interactive Systems to Promote Physical Activity and Leisure for People with Limited Mobility,
with Dr Jane Burridge (Univ. Southampton), Dr Geraldine Fitzpatrick (Univ. Sussex), Dr Sue Mawson (Univ. Sheffield Hallam), Dr Penny Probert-Smith (Univ. Oxford) and Prof Tom Rodden (Univ. Nottingham), £493,359 funded by EPSRC (£76,100 in Dundee).
Aims & Objectives for M*M
The clinical setting, the approach to care and the technologies outlined in this shape the driver in this research project. The central aim is to motivate people with mobility issues to engage in physical, cognitive and leisure activity and connect people through interactive and mobile technology using fun, games and real-world leisure activities. The specific objectives of the project are:
1. The identification of practical technological arrangements for real world users that meet real needs and can be deployed in variety of domains.
2. The design in partnership with users of suitable technological arrangements that are acceptable to them and meet the needs of key illustrative user groupings.
3. The development of engaging and stimulating content that both promotes therapeutic activity that will enhance recovery or maintenance of motor/cognitive skills and is fun to use in a way that is relevant to people and their particular condition and makes sense to all those involved.
4. The identification and assessment of the clinical benefits and accessibility of this approach in real world settings that outlines the potential advantages and pitfalls of this approach.
5. The development of a strategy to allow this form of treatment to be scaled up in order that it might be more widely used that identifies issues of cost, training and deployment.
A multidisciplinary team will address these objectives in partnership with user in real world settings in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach and the potential barriers to the broad use of these techniques
Funder: EPSRC
Start Date: 01/07/2007
End Date: 30/12/2010
For further information about the Motivating mobility: Interactive systems to promote physical activity and leisure for people with limited mobility project please contact Prof Ian W. Ricketts.