What skills and knowledge will be in demand?
Driving forward new
technologies in SLT practice
Róisín McNaney
[email protected]
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Who am I?
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Today’s talk
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Health Informatics
Technology in SLT
Designing new technologies
Digital Interaction group research examples
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Health informatics in NHS
• What is it?
– "The knowledge, skills and tools which enable
information to be collected, managed, used and
shared to support the delivery of healthcare and
promote health”. [1]
– Getting the right information to the right person
at the right time.
– Examples
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Acquisition, storage, retrieval,
and use of information
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Technologies in SLT
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Employing everyday technology in
practice
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Designing Apps and novel technology:
A basic process
• Meet with the users
• Gain empathic
understanding
• Find out what they want and
need
• Interpret the data
• Develop
• Test
• Re-design
• Repeat
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Some of our research at Culture Lab [2]
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Cueing for Drooling [3]
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Drooling very common
Current treatments
Designed with PwP
Reminds you to
swallow more often
• Tested with 30 people
• Currently analysing
results
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Google Glass [4]
• New type of wearable
computer
• Want to explore whether
it’s useful for Parkinson’s
• Exploring cues to help
symptom management
• Results from first study
• Next steps
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Crowdsourcing Intelligibility
• Crowdsourcing- micro tasks
to large amounts of people
• Data collected ‘in the wild’
• Strangers/ non experts rate
speech
• Give feedback
• Power of the crowd
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Loudness Application
• Mobile app and external
mic
• Designed by PwP
• Speaker detection from
background noise level
• Prompt louder voice
• Training element
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RCSLT collaboration
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Dysfluency + dementia
Data collection
Evidence base
Digital technology
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References
1. DOH (2002). Making Information Count, A Human
Resources Strategy for Health Informatics Professionals.
Department of Health
2. Digital Interaction at Culture Lab: Newcastle University
di.ncl.ac.uk
3. McNaney, R et al. (2011) "Cueing for drooling in
Parkinson's disease." In Proc. Of CHI’11, Vancouver. ACM.
4. McNaney, R et al. (2014) Exploring the Acceptability of
Google Glass as an Everyday Assistive Device for People
with Parkinson’s. In Proc. Of CHI’14, Toronto. ACM.
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Thank you!
Contact
Róisín McNaney
[email protected]
Culture Lab
School of Computing Science
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU Newcastle, UK
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