This is a presentation given by Professor Paul Watson of Newcastle University about the digital inclusion project SiDE (http://www.side.ac.uk) that was given at SuperMondays SuperAgeing on Tuesday 31st August 2010 at the Culture Labs at Newcastle University, UK

1. Paul Watson Director SiDE Director Digital Institute Professor of Computer Science Newcastle University

2. Social Exclusion Misery Loss of £Bs from economy

3. Digital Technologies Social Inclusion

4. New Technologies New technologies have the potential to make a positive impact on excluded people Pervasive computing Cloud computing Mobile communications Our research aims to realise that potential

5. £12M Research “Hub” Research Councils UK funded 1 of 3 UK Digital Economy Hubs 2009-2014 Newcastle & Dundee Universities Working with many external groups public, private & 3rdsector Years Ahead a key partner

6. Project Structure

7. Multi - Disciplinary Team Professor Paul Watson, Computing Science & Digital Institute Professor Phil Blythe, Civil Engineering Professor Feng Li, Business School (Dr. Sally Jane Norman, Culture Lab) Professor Patrick Olivier, Computing Science & DI Ranald Richardson, Geography, Politics and Sociology Professor Atau Tanaka, Arts & Cultures Professor Aad van Moorsel, Computing Science Dr. Lynne Corner, Institute for Ageing and Health

8. Can we use pervasive technologies to allow people to stay longer in their own homes? Professor Patrick Olivier, Newcastle University

9. Dementia “Gets the kettle, fills it, switches it on… but then she’ll stand there, and I’ll say – ‘what are you doing now?’ and I’ve jogged her memory again… she gets the coffee jar, and she’ll take the top off the jar. And she’ll look at it and think ‘what am I doing with this off for?”

10. Ambient Kitchen

12. Grand Challenge How can we use real-time information to influence behaviour (for the good)?

13. Key Stages What data to collect? Sensors How to model and reason about behaviour? Intervention How to influence behaviour?

14. Influencing People with Dementia What data to collect? RFID Accelerometers in utensils Floor pressure Video Sensors How to model and reason about behaviour? Intervention Data Mining, Activity Recognition, Partially Ordered Markov Decision Processes Prompting, Alerts How to influence behaviour?

15. Our General Architecture Consumers & Generators Consumers App App App App Generators App Filter Real Time Historic Sensors Inform Create Models Calibrate Models Aggregations Data Warehouse Event Processing Sensor events -> Application events

16. SIDE Summary Digital Technology currently not benefitting all Our aim is to transform lives focus on research into harnessing new technologies to benefit the socially excluded Creating Centre of Excellence in Digital Inclusion multi-disciplinary team essential