Venue: Shilling LT
Date: 8 March 2024, 14:00-16:30
Professor Chee Siang (Jim) Ang
Bio: Jim Ang is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Computing and Kent and Medway Medical School at the University of Kent. Additionally, he serves as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries. His primary research interest lies in digital health, with a focus on smart sensing and immersive technology.
Jim Ang is involved in multidisciplinary research in digital health. His research approach is centred around co-design of healthcare systems to achieve real-world impacts through an in-depth understanding of stakeholders and healthcare organisational contexts. Currently, his research focuses on designing, developing and deploying digital technologies, such as virtual/augmented reality, sensing technologies integrated with machine learning in real-world settings to improve the quality of healthcare and ultimately to improve human wellbeing.
Title: Video game, Violence and Dementia
Abstract: When ‘video games’ and ‘health’ are mentioned together, it is often depicted in a negative light. For example: ‘video games can cause addiction and violent behaviours.’ What if we could flip it around and use video games to improve health? In this talk, I will explore ways to address the global challenge of healthcare through the multidisciplinary field of ‘digital health,’ leveraging video game technology to enhance patient outcomes.
Professor Nav Mustafee
Bio: Nav Mustafee is a Professor in Analytics and Operations Management at the University of Exeter Business School. His research focuses on Modelling and Simulation methodologies and their application in healthcare, supply chain management and the circular economy. A particular area of interest is Hybrid Modelling. He is the Primary Investigator for an NHS Devon ICB-funded project related to urgent care, a Co-Investigator for EU projects investigating systemic solutions for resilience to climate change (ARSINOE) and circular economy of water (ULTIMATE), a UKRI-funded project on healthcare redesign (SPHERE) and a new MRC/NIHR-funded project on sharing tools and artefacts for reproducible simulation (STARS) in healthcare. Nav is the recipient of the OR Society’s Lyn Thomas Impact Medal for 2022 for developing a platform informing attendance choices for urgent care. Nav is a Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Simulation and Vice-President of Publications at The Society For Modeling & Simulation International. He is the Founder and Chair of the Health and Care IMPACT Network, a collaboration between the Business School and NHS Trusts in the South West of England.
Title: Digital Health and Opportunities with Real-time Data and Digital Twins in A&E Departments
Abstract: The talk will discuss digital health in the context of using real-time data for operations management in A&E departments and other centres of minor injuries. A REF2021 impact study on using nudges (indirectsuggestions) to support patients in making informed decisions about available healthcare choices will be presented. The impact study led to the development of a real-time platform called NHSquicker, which provides digital nudges based on live waiting time from a network of A&E departments and urgent care centres (UCCs) in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset (approx. 35 centres). The NHSquicker app allows the patients to make informed decisions, for example, whether they visit a facility which may be nearer to them but with a long waiting time or travel to an alternative location that is further away but with a shorter waiting time. He will discuss the potential of combining live feeds from multiple sources will be discussed with reference to work on integrating NHSquicker with the NHS Directory of Services (DOS). The talk will conclude by discussing current work on using real-time data to develop digital twins.
