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The School of Computing and Communications at the Open University is seeking a candidate for a fully funded PhD studentship to explore the development of user interfaces for older adults to self-monitor and manage data relating to their smart home, health and wellbeing and their family, friends and carers. 

You will benefit from being part of the STRETCH project (https://www.stretchproject.org/). The successful candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary team with colleagues from social psychology, software engineering, the health sector and Age UK. The STRETCH project is well placed to support the candidate in the funding of conference travel, equipment purchases, and other research costs as well as having staff dedicated to the development of prototypes.

We are seeking someone with an interest in human-computer interaction design with some experience of programming or product development. The best candidates will have experience in undertaking qualitative research and understand the value of participatory design. 

The closing date is the 28th February 2018. 

More information can be found at http://www9.open.ac.uk/mct-cc/study/research-degrees/student-projects/novel-smart-home-interfaces-older-adults-self-monitor-their. We strongly recommend contacting Dr Daniel Gooch (daniel.gooch @ open.ac.uk) and Prof Blaine Price (b.a.price @ open.ac.uk) for an informal discussion and advice as this will help in creating a stronger, more polished proposal. 

For further details of how to apply, entry requirements and the application form, see: http://www9.open.ac.uk/mct-cc/study/research-degrees 

Project Description

UK Hospitals often experience 'Black Alert' which means that scheduled operations must be cancelled and incoming patients turned away because all the beds are full. This can be caused by elderly patients being unable to be discharged and return to their home even though they no longer need clinical care as they still need some level of minimal monitoring and assistance to live at home.

The STRETCH project aims to address this problem by integrating the human circles of support (including people such as hospital clinicians, GPs, community healthcare workers, formal community support, informal support such as neighbours, and adult children).

We intend to use wearables, smart home, and other Internet of Things technologies to collect data from both people and devices and distribute the right data to the appropriate people at the level of detail that person needs. This may range from re-assuring adult children that their elderly parent is well to giving timely relevant data to specialist hospital clinicians so they can delivery targeted support to the patients who need it.

Background Skills

Candidates will benefit from having some experience and skill in UX/UI development, programming and having an interest in the domain.

Having experience of undertaking qualitative research and analysis would be ideal.

It would be useful if candidates had experience of undertaking Participatory Design activities, had previously worked with older adults and had experience of working in multidisciplinary teams.

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