European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing, 7 February 2013, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland

1. Identifying needs and advancing the
state of the art in health and
wellbeing systems
Maurice Mulvenna
7 Feb 2013

2. Outline
¨ Experience
¨ European Innovation Partnership on Active &
Healthy Ageing
¨ Ambition

3. My experience in national and international
collaborative research
Experience

4. ¨ Develop and evaluate a user-validated remotely
configurable cognitive prosthetic device with
associated services for people with mild dementia
¨ Helping people navigate their day:
¤ Reminding function
¤ Activity support
¤ Activity assistance
¤ Safety warnings
Mulvenna, M.D., Nugent, C.D. (Eds.), Supporting People with Dementia Using Pervasive Health
Technologies, Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, 2010, 238 pages, Springer

5. Next Generation Services
¨ Health & Wellbeing Benefits:
¤ Prolonged independent living
¤ Increased physical and psychological health and
wellbeing
¤ Improved motivation and self-management of health
¤ Increased sense of wellbeing and security
¤ More efficient, cost-effective, and targeted delivery of
services
¤ More accessible communication systems
Advisory Committee on Older and Disabled People, (2010) Next Generation Services for Older and
Disabled People, Ofcom ACOD, Last accessed January 2013 at http://goo.gl/ApRwB

6. ¨ Provide therapeutic support and guidance to this
group of people during the hours of darkness
¤ Investigate the needs of people with dementia at night
time
¤ Research new technologically-based therapeutic
interventions capabilities
¤ Sleep measurements variables: quantity of sleep,
quality of sleep, rhythm of sleep
Mulvenna, M.D., et al (2011) Visualization of Data for Ambient Assisted Living Services, IEEE
Communications, January 2011, 49(1): 110-117.

7. ¨ Investigating the unmet needs of
older people living in the local
community (in a variety of living
accommodation), by talking with
older people in order to prioritise
problems, seeking the best
available evidence to meet needs,
and working with people to
implement and evaluate the
evidence in practice.
Beamish, E., McDade, D., Mulvenna, M.D., Martin, S., Soilemezi, D., (2012) Better Together: The
TRAIL User Participation Toolkit for Living Labs, University of Ulster, 108 pages,

8. ¨ Significant technical complexity
¨ Getting results outside lab is still
difficult
¨ Integration of technologies is
troublesome
¨ Consistency of results difficult to
achieve
¨ Need for person-centred approach
¨ Participants like being part of process
Mulvenna, M.D., Lightbody, G., Thomson, E., McCullagh, P., Ware, M., Martin, S., (2012) Realistic
Expectations with Brain Computer Interfaces, Journal of Assistive Technologies, 6(4): 233-245.

9. ¨ New products and services
developed through participatory
research with older people and
triple-helix partners in Northern
Ireland, Norway, and Sweden
¨ The products and services focus on
mobile safety alarms, prescribed
self treatment and mobile-based
social networks.
Mulvenna, M.D., et al. (2010) Towards Sustainable Business Models From Healthcare Technology
Research, International Journal of Computers in Healthcare, 1(1): 20-35.

10. Research strategy
Bougiouklis, K., Papageorgiou, D., Mulvenna, M.D., Koumpis, A., Dogac, A., Akcay, B., Kirisci, P.,
(2006) Towards Successful Participation in European ICT Research: Advice on Research Strategy and
Action Planning, IST-BONUS, 110 pages

11. First impressions
European Innovation Partnership on Active
and Healthy Ageing

12. EIP AHA: Strategic Plan

13. EIP AHA: Operational Plan

14. SIP: EIP on AHA

15. SIP: EIP on AHA

16. How to win funding and influence people
Ambition

17. Ambition
¨ User needs
¨ Consortium
¨ Impact
¨ Advance state of the art / Innovate

18. Systemic integration
Fulop et al 2005, in Lewis et al (2010)

19. Systemic innovation
Innovation
for the User
Functional
Innovation
Service
Innovation
Clinical
Innovation
Organisational
Innovation
Based on Fulop et al 2005, in Lewis et al (2010)

20. Systemic innovation à Normative innovation
Innovation
for the User
Functional
Innovation
Service
Innovation
Clinical
Innovation
Organisational
Innovation
Based on Fulop et al 2005, in Lewis et al (2010)
Open data
Hacker Labs
NESTA
X-Discipline
ABC
C-TRIC
Living Labs
eParticipation
Triple-Helix
Partnerships

21. A University of Ulster Innovation Lab
visit trail.ulster.ac.uk
THANKS…
Tel: 02890368602
Email: md.mulvenna@ulster.ac.uk
Web: trail.ulster.ac.uk
Twitter: @mauricemulvenna