Health and Wellbeing
Our research not only develops new technology for healthcare but also evaluates its effectiveness, acceptability to clinical and patient or public users, and develops standards for its successful implementation.
Amongst our key research questions are:
- What makes people susceptible to injuries – from knee ligament injuries in footballers to head injuries in the elderly?
- What are the best strategies and technologies to reduce or eliminate musculoskeletal and impact injuries?
- How can human factors be used to improve health technologies and systems?
Our methodological expertise includes:
- User research
- Cognitive work analysis (mental workload)
- Anthropometric and physical workload assessment
- Task analysis
- Participatory design
- Contextual Inquiry and other qualitative approaches
- Usability testing
- Human reliability analysis
- Use related hazard and risk assessment
- Systems mapping
- Process evaluation
- Human movement tracking and evaluation
- Musculoskeletal loading assessment
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