Speaker Bio
Prof Price has broad interests and experience working in multidisciplinary research areas from ubiquitous computing, life logging technologies and interaction design, to privacy awareness and the law. His research has focused on lifelogging and self-quantifying applied to healthcare. His public engagement activities on self-quantifying for healthcare include interviews with BBC Radio 4 and BBC 1 Breakfast Television, a Horizon programme on BBC 2, and a TEDx talk.
Daniel’s research focusses on social computing across various domains, including healthcare – leading to setting up the Digital Health Lab alongside Prof Price. He has significant experience in using citizen-science methodologies, particularly participatory design. This has included running the citizen innovation program of MK:Smart and running the HCI stream of the EPSRC STRETCH and SERVICE projects. His interests lead to his work being very user-centred, although he also dabbles in quantitative analysis as needed for some of the digital health projects he is involved in.
Self-Logging with Painpad
Blaine Price and Daniel Gooch, Open University
Thursday 23rd March 2023. 13:00-14:00 GMT. The Buncar.
Monitoring patients’ pain is a critical issue for clinical caregivers, particularly among staff responsible for providing analgesic relief. However, collecting regularly scheduled pain readings from patients can be difficult and time-consuming for clinicians. We have been working on the Painpad device, a tangible device for patients to self-log pain, since 2017. In this talk we outline the academic work (from designing the device to assessing it’s capabilities), the clinical uses of the device, and the lessons learnt from this longitudinal investigation of pain.
The Digital Health Lab at the Open University has interests across a wide-range of health and wellbeing issues. These range from monitoring pain to tracking mood, from using AI in cardiology to developing assistive technologies for gait rehabilitation. In this talk we outline some of our current projects, as a prompt for exploring potential routes for collaboration.