RESEARCH STREAMS
Our 3 research streams link to our main research innovations and outcomes as below:
- Personalised monitoring: Personalising prediction through new technologies.
- Transformative Rehabilitation: MyPLAN supported by specialised therapy centres in the community and therapist coach and avatar.
- Interactive hub: Centralised information hub supported by a network of therapists.
RESEARCH PLATFORMS
Our 3 cross-cutting platforms provide the knowledge, skills and expertise to achieve our goals. These are:
- Innovative Technologies and Artificial Intelligence Platform
- Longitudinal Stroke Cohort with Bursts of Therapy Platform
- Knowledge Translation and Impact Platform
Change the way we ask questions: Personalise.
Change the way we measure and monitor: In real-time.
We will capture task performance and experience through real-time monitoring (personalised) while the person is doing the activities they need and want to be able to do (The Living Lab). Taking a personalised ‘living lab’ approach is a significant shift. We will do this using wearable sensors, with individualised data capture of biological parameters, and an experience sampling app, customised to probe the person’s perception of the challenge and satisfaction of carrying out meaningful actions in the context of their everyday lives. An unsupervised artificial intelligence approach developed and extended by us, will be used to summarise outcomes and generate actionable insights. This information will be coupled with pre-stroke factors and post-stroke clinical factors to develop a predictive model of biopsychosocial and experience-linked factors impacting recovery: i.e. a ‘fingerprint of recovery’.
Capture performance during therapy and
provide therapist feedback remotely and interactively.
We will use unlabelled video and human activity recognition technology to capture performance of stroke survivors during therapy, i.e. during skill training and during self-selected real-world activities. Human activity recognition analysis will be automated and integrated with interpretation by expert therapists. It will be used to provide feedback to persons with stroke during task performance. Feedback will be delivered remotely and interactively using telerehabilitation and a personalised feedback App (therapist avatar), via our centralised hub. It will be delivered in tandem with skill-based task training (recommended using ViaTherapy) and cognitive-oriented strategy learning applied to self-selected real-world activities.
Staying connected:
Interactive database and network of upskilled therapists.
We will create a centralised hub that will provide personalised feedback by experts, informed by AI and deep-learning. The centralised hub will permit fusion of data from personalised monitoring and from video activity recognition. The central hub will also have an education and translation role.
Therapists require a high skill level to anticipate activity limitations and to expertly analyse tasks during strategy training. As part of the process we will operationalise the clinical decision-making process of ‘master’ therapists who are experts in delivery of the therapeutic intervention and cognitive strategy training. From this we will develop a mobile application with the features of being real time, interactive, personalised and predictive. This App will act like a therapist avatar, providing a resource both for persons with stroke and for therapists. A key strength of our proposal is the existing network of sites and upskilled therapists that this program will be linked with.
