I might best describe myself as an interdisciplinary researcher, with interest in digital health & care, innovation, future skills and workforce development issues. Previously, my work has focussed on research practices, interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration, professional practices, science and knowledge production; educational issues and educational technologies. I am also interested in ethnographic and formative/emergent research methods, participatory research, theories of sociomaterialities, Actor-Network Theory and post-humanist research. The red thread running through my multifaceted career in research is innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration and emergent technologies. Supervisors: Professor Richard Edwards and Professor Patrick Carmichael
This qualitative study aims to address the identified gap in literature concerning the lack of r... more This qualitative study aims to address the identified gap in literature concerning the lack of rigorous, theory-based, qualitative studies to clarify how and when to effectively use simulations to ...
This paper discusses a methodological dilemma proposed by engaging actor-network theory (ANT) in ... more This paper discusses a methodological dilemma proposed by engaging actor-network theory (ANT) in studying collaborative research practices of researchers in a large interdisciplinary project. The paper sets the context of this large publically funded project (‘Ensemble: Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case Based learning’) between Education and Computer Sciences, currently being undertaken by a consortium of six UK universities and three international partners. While a strand of ANT states that knowledge ‘emerges as continuously generated effects of webs of relations within which they are located’ (Law 2007), it is very vague in terms of how precisely does that knowledge emerge and how to study that. The methods -question was further complicated by the existence of multiple, potentially conflicting epistemological positions present at the project – how to study these without having to pass a value judgement in terms of their validity and reliability? The specific focus of the discussion is what might be termed the epistemology of actor-network theory, with particular consideration of the Principle of Symmetry. The paper suggests reading ANT through John Dewey’s Pragmatism and assesses ideas to take forward from this discussion in order to study interdisciplinary research work.
With COVID-19 lockdown measures easing across the UK, there is still a need for people to practic... more With COVID-19 lockdown measures easing across the UK, there is still a need for people to practice social distancing measures and in some cases, self-isolation at home. This flash report investigates how other countries have supported people to isolate effectively and explores the types of incentive schemes that are being set up round the world to promote compliance with self-isolation, or ways in which positive behaviours are rewarded. The report was prepared by the DHI in the third week of May 2020, however by the time it is published, the situation will have developed further.
This rapid review explores the question “How can we undertake ‘people-powered’ contact tracing ac... more This rapid review explores the question “How can we undertake ‘people-powered’ contact tracing activity at scale? What types of options are available?”. The main focus of the report will be on investigating any methods and evidence around digitally enhanced people-powered contact tracing. The spectrum of available methodologies for contact tracing range from paper-based methods to fully automated, anonymous digital contact tracing using mobile phone Apps and Bluetooth or geolocation services. Selected examples are provided.
On December 31st, 2019, the World Health Organisation received a report from the Chinese governme... more On December 31st, 2019, the World Health Organisation received a report from the Chinese government detailing a cluster of cases of ‘pneumonia of unknown origin’, later identified as novel coronavirus. The virus, now referred to as COVID-19, quickly spread and was officially declared a global pandemic on March 11th. COVID-19 has put health services under enormous strain globally. Turning to digital methods for collating data on cases, associated symptoms and the routes through which the virus may be spreading has been a common response. Human-powered contact tracing, although resource-intensive, is still considered to be the most effective way of tracking and helping to curtail the spread of infectious diseasesi. Intense efforts are underway to develop digital tools that can augment and automate some of these processes, such as the NHSX app or Singapore’s TraceTogether app, however, these are often beset with technical and privacy-related issues. This report reviews digital approach...
Thomas, Jennifer and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Morrison, Ciarán (2020) Global Examples of Methods an... more Thomas, Jennifer and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Morrison, Ciarán (2020) Global Examples of Methods and Tools for Supporting and Incentivising Self-Isolation at Home. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/72785)
Buchanan, William and Imran, Muhammad and Pagliari, Claudia and Pell, Jill and Rimpiläinen, Sanna... more Buchanan, William and Imran, Muhammad and Pagliari, Claudia and Pell, Jill and Rimpiläinen, Sanna (2020) Use of Participatory Apps in Contact Tracing – Options and Implications for Public Health, Privacy and Trust. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/73197)
On December 31st, 2019, the World Health Organisation received a report from the Chinese government detailing a cluster of cases of ‘pneumonia of unknown origin’, later identified as novel coronavirus. The virus, now referred to as COVID-19, quickly spread and was officially declared a global pandemic on March 11th. COVID-19 has put health services under enormous strain globally. Turning to digital methods for collating data on cases, associated symptoms and the routes through which the virus may be spreading has been a common response. Human-powered contact tracing, although resource-intensive, is still considered to be the most effective way of tracking and helping to curtail the spread of infectious diseasesi. Intense efforts are underway to develop digital tools that can augment and automate some of these processes, such as the NHSX app or Singapore’s TraceTogether app, however, these are often beset with technical and privacy-related issues. This report reviews digital approaches that involve citizens as co-actors in efforts to support contact tracing, which may include elements of both location/proximity monitoring and symptom reporting, the latter representing a type of crowdsourced disease surveillance.ii This is approached from the perspectives of public health data needs, privacy-centred architectures, technologies and standards, and digital ethics. The aim is to inform an approach to digital contact tracing that is consistent with Scottish policy around secure, transparent, participatory and privacy-respectful data sharing for health and wellbeing. As such, some of the insights and recommendations are applicable to broader aspects of digital health in Scotland. The report collates expert answers to the following questions: • What are the desirable outcomes arising from the automation of symptom and contact tracing data collection at scale? (Prof Jill Pell, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow); • How might the distributed system be architected to be secure and respectful of privacy from the outset? (Prof Bill Buchanan, OBE, School of Computing, University of Napier); • What communications standards and methods would best support the approach? (Prof Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow); • What are the ethical challenges and what steps should Scottish Government take to secure public trust? (Prof Claudia Pagliari, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh)
Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Thomas, Jennifer and Morrison, Ciarán (2020) Global Examples of COVID-19 S... more Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Thomas, Jennifer and Morrison, Ciarán (2020) Global Examples of COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies : Flash Report. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/72028)
The fast spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world has put health services under an enormous strain. Turning to digital means for collating data on the spread of the virus, the associated symptoms, as well as the routes through which it may be spreading has been a common response. The situation, the associated technologies and the practices of their use vary across the globe and evolve rapidly. This report provides a global snapshot of the different types of technologies in use or in development for surveillance of COVID-19 at the beginning of April 2020. By the time this report is published, the situation will have developed further. The body of the report presents short descriptions of a selection of different apps from around the world. More detailed data tables are in Appendix 1 and include references used.
This rapid review explores the question “How can we undertake ‘people-powered’ contact tracing ac... more This rapid review explores the question “How can we undertake ‘people-powered’ contact tracing activity at scale? What types of options are available?”. The main focus of the report will be on investigating any methods and evidence around digitally enhanced people-powered contact tracing. The spectrum of available methodologies for contact tracing range from paper-based methods to fully automated, anonymous digital contact tracing using mobile phone Apps and Bluetooth or geolocation services. Selected examples are provided.
Morrison, C. and Rimpiläinen, S. and Bosnic, I. and Thomas, J. and Savage, J. (2022) Emerging Tre... more Morrison, C. and Rimpiläinen, S. and Bosnic, I. and Thomas, J. and Savage, J. (2022) Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care : A Refresh Post-COVID [Booklet]. Digital Health & Care Institute, Glasgow.
This booklet summarises the findings from the 'Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care: A Refresh post-COVID' report.
Morrison, Ciarán and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Bosnic, Iris and Thomas, Jennifer and Savage, Jamie (... more Morrison, Ciarán and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Bosnic, Iris and Thomas, Jennifer and Savage, Jamie (2022) Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care : A Refresh Post-COVID. Digital Health & Care Institute, Glasgow.
In the lead up to the pandemic, the implementation and use of digital health solutions and awareness of the field were steadily on the rise. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented hike in the provision and the use of digital health and care solutions. This was a direct response of the health and care services globally to the various national lockdown measures implemented at the time. While such high levels of use of digital tech in health and care delivery are expected to fall post pandemic, the levels will remain much higher than those observed before the pandemic. This pandemic-accelerated proliferation of digital health and care solutions predictably pushed the sector onto the world stage, as the underlying infrastructures, legislation and guidance for these solutions needed to be realised. This report has been informed by large-scale desktop research of academic and grey literature, drawing information on post-COVID developments in digital health and care from international sources and across all levels of government, academia, business, and industry. The report begins with a looking at the enablers and drivers affecting the digitalisation of health and care, followed by a digital health and care market overview. After this, the report is organised into two parts: Part 1 reviews the various technical developments and Part 2 examines softer developments in digital health and care post-COVID. These developments are presented under overarching themes of the transformation of health and care services, migration from analogue and legacy systems to modern digital approaches, the acceleration of digital innovation in health and care, and the acceptance of digital in health and care. The primary takeaway from this review of the emerging trends in digital health and care is that there is now an established acceptance for digital health and care solutions as part of health and care service delivery. The pandemic has acted as a catalyst for change in the sector, with citizens expecting digital technology to play a part in the delivery of their health and care.
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI); Fuzesi, Peter and Kendall, William and MacKenzie, ... more Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI); Fuzesi, Peter and Kendall, William and MacKenzie, Moira and McIntyre, Don and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Savage, Jamie and Stoney, Charlotte. (2023) MINDSET Workstream 2 : Scoping Review for the Distribution and Procurement of Mental Health and Wellbeing XR Experiences, Products and Solutions in the UK. Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, Glasgow.
In November 2022, DHI was commissioned by UKRI to inform Workstream 2 of the £20m MINDSET Programme, a “test and trial a platform for the distribution and procurement of mental health and wellbeing XR experiences, products and solutions”. DHI developed a three-stage approach to address a specific set of questions posed by UKRI - Current State Mapping; Co-designing Future State, Recommendations. The approach included a desktop and literature review, interviews with procurement experts and suppliers, a series of co-design workshops prior to an analysis of findings to inform the report recommendations.
Report detailing Canada's journey towards its national EHR. Canada has chosen to utilise hub-... more Report detailing Canada's journey towards its national EHR. Canada has chosen to utilise hub-and-spoke repositories over point-to-point information exchange systems. Estonia's system is a decentralised point-to-point information exchange system, where each provider maintains its own database and shares elements of information as requested. The hub-andspoke repository systems collect and store copies of critical health information in jurisdictionally coordinated repositories, enabling the care giver to view and access consolidated, timely information easy via a computer. Similar approaches are used by Vista, Epic (Kaiser Permanente) and in UK. The nationwide approach to EHR aims to ensure that consistent standards are used in building EHR elements, thus enabling future interoperability within and across jurisdictions. A shared approach also guarantees that movement of knowledge and people across jurisdiction is simple, that platform quality nationwide is equal, and that coope...
How do the socio-materialities present at an educational setting, together with the affordances o... more How do the socio-materialities present at an educational setting, together with the affordances of semantic technologies, affect the process and outcome of technology development? It is usually only the results we see at the end of such process - the means by which we got there are faded out of the picture as irrelevant. This paper examines one instance of technology design, the development of a prototype for a Data Aggregating Document, in detail. The paper pertains to a longitudinal ethnographic case-study of Ensemble (2008-11), an interdisciplinary research and technology development project between education and computer sciences. Drawing upon socio-materialities and Actor-Network Theory, the research and technology development are conceptualised as processes of translation and of socio-material tuning. Data Aggregating Document (DAD) is a piece of semantic technology originally developed as part of the work of Ensemble-project with archaeology teaching in mind. DAD is, in short, a digital document with smaller pieces of semantic technology, ‘semantic exhibitlets’, embedded in it. These can visualise data aggregated from various sources, e.g. as maps or timelines. The DAD emerged as a proposed piece of technology around ‘Artefact-projects’, a structured report written by final year archaeology students on a selected object from the museum archive. Originally only handed in as hard-copy, there was an identified need to digitise the reports in order to make them more available for others at the museum archive. At the same time, this piece of technology was also envisaged to support the creation and teaching of ‘Artefact-projects’. The paper discusses how the socio-materiality of the ‘Artefact-project’ and the affordances of the semantic technologies mutually affected the technology development process, and how the DAD found its uses in more ‘semantic-ready’ settings.
This qualitative study aims to address the identified gap in literature concerning the lack of r... more This qualitative study aims to address the identified gap in literature concerning the lack of rigorous, theory-based, qualitative studies to clarify how and when to effectively use simulations to ...
This paper discusses a methodological dilemma proposed by engaging actor-network theory (ANT) in ... more This paper discusses a methodological dilemma proposed by engaging actor-network theory (ANT) in studying collaborative research practices of researchers in a large interdisciplinary project. The paper sets the context of this large publically funded project (‘Ensemble: Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case Based learning’) between Education and Computer Sciences, currently being undertaken by a consortium of six UK universities and three international partners. While a strand of ANT states that knowledge ‘emerges as continuously generated effects of webs of relations within which they are located’ (Law 2007), it is very vague in terms of how precisely does that knowledge emerge and how to study that. The methods -question was further complicated by the existence of multiple, potentially conflicting epistemological positions present at the project – how to study these without having to pass a value judgement in terms of their validity and reliability? The specific focus of the discussion is what might be termed the epistemology of actor-network theory, with particular consideration of the Principle of Symmetry. The paper suggests reading ANT through John Dewey’s Pragmatism and assesses ideas to take forward from this discussion in order to study interdisciplinary research work.
With COVID-19 lockdown measures easing across the UK, there is still a need for people to practic... more With COVID-19 lockdown measures easing across the UK, there is still a need for people to practice social distancing measures and in some cases, self-isolation at home. This flash report investigates how other countries have supported people to isolate effectively and explores the types of incentive schemes that are being set up round the world to promote compliance with self-isolation, or ways in which positive behaviours are rewarded. The report was prepared by the DHI in the third week of May 2020, however by the time it is published, the situation will have developed further.
This rapid review explores the question “How can we undertake ‘people-powered’ contact tracing ac... more This rapid review explores the question “How can we undertake ‘people-powered’ contact tracing activity at scale? What types of options are available?”. The main focus of the report will be on investigating any methods and evidence around digitally enhanced people-powered contact tracing. The spectrum of available methodologies for contact tracing range from paper-based methods to fully automated, anonymous digital contact tracing using mobile phone Apps and Bluetooth or geolocation services. Selected examples are provided.
On December 31st, 2019, the World Health Organisation received a report from the Chinese governme... more On December 31st, 2019, the World Health Organisation received a report from the Chinese government detailing a cluster of cases of ‘pneumonia of unknown origin’, later identified as novel coronavirus. The virus, now referred to as COVID-19, quickly spread and was officially declared a global pandemic on March 11th. COVID-19 has put health services under enormous strain globally. Turning to digital methods for collating data on cases, associated symptoms and the routes through which the virus may be spreading has been a common response. Human-powered contact tracing, although resource-intensive, is still considered to be the most effective way of tracking and helping to curtail the spread of infectious diseasesi. Intense efforts are underway to develop digital tools that can augment and automate some of these processes, such as the NHSX app or Singapore’s TraceTogether app, however, these are often beset with technical and privacy-related issues. This report reviews digital approach...
Thomas, Jennifer and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Morrison, Ciarán (2020) Global Examples of Methods an... more Thomas, Jennifer and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Morrison, Ciarán (2020) Global Examples of Methods and Tools for Supporting and Incentivising Self-Isolation at Home. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/72785)
Buchanan, William and Imran, Muhammad and Pagliari, Claudia and Pell, Jill and Rimpiläinen, Sanna... more Buchanan, William and Imran, Muhammad and Pagliari, Claudia and Pell, Jill and Rimpiläinen, Sanna (2020) Use of Participatory Apps in Contact Tracing – Options and Implications for Public Health, Privacy and Trust. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/73197)
On December 31st, 2019, the World Health Organisation received a report from the Chinese government detailing a cluster of cases of ‘pneumonia of unknown origin’, later identified as novel coronavirus. The virus, now referred to as COVID-19, quickly spread and was officially declared a global pandemic on March 11th. COVID-19 has put health services under enormous strain globally. Turning to digital methods for collating data on cases, associated symptoms and the routes through which the virus may be spreading has been a common response. Human-powered contact tracing, although resource-intensive, is still considered to be the most effective way of tracking and helping to curtail the spread of infectious diseasesi. Intense efforts are underway to develop digital tools that can augment and automate some of these processes, such as the NHSX app or Singapore’s TraceTogether app, however, these are often beset with technical and privacy-related issues. This report reviews digital approaches that involve citizens as co-actors in efforts to support contact tracing, which may include elements of both location/proximity monitoring and symptom reporting, the latter representing a type of crowdsourced disease surveillance.ii This is approached from the perspectives of public health data needs, privacy-centred architectures, technologies and standards, and digital ethics. The aim is to inform an approach to digital contact tracing that is consistent with Scottish policy around secure, transparent, participatory and privacy-respectful data sharing for health and wellbeing. As such, some of the insights and recommendations are applicable to broader aspects of digital health in Scotland. The report collates expert answers to the following questions: • What are the desirable outcomes arising from the automation of symptom and contact tracing data collection at scale? (Prof Jill Pell, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow); • How might the distributed system be architected to be secure and respectful of privacy from the outset? (Prof Bill Buchanan, OBE, School of Computing, University of Napier); • What communications standards and methods would best support the approach? (Prof Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow); • What are the ethical challenges and what steps should Scottish Government take to secure public trust? (Prof Claudia Pagliari, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh)
Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Thomas, Jennifer and Morrison, Ciarán (2020) Global Examples of COVID-19 S... more Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Thomas, Jennifer and Morrison, Ciarán (2020) Global Examples of COVID-19 Surveillance Technologies : Flash Report. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/72028)
The fast spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world has put health services under an enormous strain. Turning to digital means for collating data on the spread of the virus, the associated symptoms, as well as the routes through which it may be spreading has been a common response. The situation, the associated technologies and the practices of their use vary across the globe and evolve rapidly. This report provides a global snapshot of the different types of technologies in use or in development for surveillance of COVID-19 at the beginning of April 2020. By the time this report is published, the situation will have developed further. The body of the report presents short descriptions of a selection of different apps from around the world. More detailed data tables are in Appendix 1 and include references used.
This rapid review explores the question “How can we undertake ‘people-powered’ contact tracing ac... more This rapid review explores the question “How can we undertake ‘people-powered’ contact tracing activity at scale? What types of options are available?”. The main focus of the report will be on investigating any methods and evidence around digitally enhanced people-powered contact tracing. The spectrum of available methodologies for contact tracing range from paper-based methods to fully automated, anonymous digital contact tracing using mobile phone Apps and Bluetooth or geolocation services. Selected examples are provided.
Morrison, C. and Rimpiläinen, S. and Bosnic, I. and Thomas, J. and Savage, J. (2022) Emerging Tre... more Morrison, C. and Rimpiläinen, S. and Bosnic, I. and Thomas, J. and Savage, J. (2022) Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care : A Refresh Post-COVID [Booklet]. Digital Health & Care Institute, Glasgow.
This booklet summarises the findings from the 'Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care: A Refresh post-COVID' report.
Morrison, Ciarán and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Bosnic, Iris and Thomas, Jennifer and Savage, Jamie (... more Morrison, Ciarán and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Bosnic, Iris and Thomas, Jennifer and Savage, Jamie (2022) Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care : A Refresh Post-COVID. Digital Health & Care Institute, Glasgow.
In the lead up to the pandemic, the implementation and use of digital health solutions and awareness of the field were steadily on the rise. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented hike in the provision and the use of digital health and care solutions. This was a direct response of the health and care services globally to the various national lockdown measures implemented at the time. While such high levels of use of digital tech in health and care delivery are expected to fall post pandemic, the levels will remain much higher than those observed before the pandemic. This pandemic-accelerated proliferation of digital health and care solutions predictably pushed the sector onto the world stage, as the underlying infrastructures, legislation and guidance for these solutions needed to be realised. This report has been informed by large-scale desktop research of academic and grey literature, drawing information on post-COVID developments in digital health and care from international sources and across all levels of government, academia, business, and industry. The report begins with a looking at the enablers and drivers affecting the digitalisation of health and care, followed by a digital health and care market overview. After this, the report is organised into two parts: Part 1 reviews the various technical developments and Part 2 examines softer developments in digital health and care post-COVID. These developments are presented under overarching themes of the transformation of health and care services, migration from analogue and legacy systems to modern digital approaches, the acceleration of digital innovation in health and care, and the acceptance of digital in health and care. The primary takeaway from this review of the emerging trends in digital health and care is that there is now an established acceptance for digital health and care solutions as part of health and care service delivery. The pandemic has acted as a catalyst for change in the sector, with citizens expecting digital technology to play a part in the delivery of their health and care.
Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI); Fuzesi, Peter and Kendall, William and MacKenzie, ... more Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI); Fuzesi, Peter and Kendall, William and MacKenzie, Moira and McIntyre, Don and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Savage, Jamie and Stoney, Charlotte. (2023) MINDSET Workstream 2 : Scoping Review for the Distribution and Procurement of Mental Health and Wellbeing XR Experiences, Products and Solutions in the UK. Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, Glasgow.
In November 2022, DHI was commissioned by UKRI to inform Workstream 2 of the £20m MINDSET Programme, a “test and trial a platform for the distribution and procurement of mental health and wellbeing XR experiences, products and solutions”. DHI developed a three-stage approach to address a specific set of questions posed by UKRI - Current State Mapping; Co-designing Future State, Recommendations. The approach included a desktop and literature review, interviews with procurement experts and suppliers, a series of co-design workshops prior to an analysis of findings to inform the report recommendations.
Report detailing Canada's journey towards its national EHR. Canada has chosen to utilise hub-... more Report detailing Canada's journey towards its national EHR. Canada has chosen to utilise hub-and-spoke repositories over point-to-point information exchange systems. Estonia's system is a decentralised point-to-point information exchange system, where each provider maintains its own database and shares elements of information as requested. The hub-andspoke repository systems collect and store copies of critical health information in jurisdictionally coordinated repositories, enabling the care giver to view and access consolidated, timely information easy via a computer. Similar approaches are used by Vista, Epic (Kaiser Permanente) and in UK. The nationwide approach to EHR aims to ensure that consistent standards are used in building EHR elements, thus enabling future interoperability within and across jurisdictions. A shared approach also guarantees that movement of knowledge and people across jurisdiction is simple, that platform quality nationwide is equal, and that coope...
How do the socio-materialities present at an educational setting, together with the affordances o... more How do the socio-materialities present at an educational setting, together with the affordances of semantic technologies, affect the process and outcome of technology development? It is usually only the results we see at the end of such process - the means by which we got there are faded out of the picture as irrelevant. This paper examines one instance of technology design, the development of a prototype for a Data Aggregating Document, in detail. The paper pertains to a longitudinal ethnographic case-study of Ensemble (2008-11), an interdisciplinary research and technology development project between education and computer sciences. Drawing upon socio-materialities and Actor-Network Theory, the research and technology development are conceptualised as processes of translation and of socio-material tuning. Data Aggregating Document (DAD) is a piece of semantic technology originally developed as part of the work of Ensemble-project with archaeology teaching in mind. DAD is, in short, a digital document with smaller pieces of semantic technology, ‘semantic exhibitlets’, embedded in it. These can visualise data aggregated from various sources, e.g. as maps or timelines. The DAD emerged as a proposed piece of technology around ‘Artefact-projects’, a structured report written by final year archaeology students on a selected object from the museum archive. Originally only handed in as hard-copy, there was an identified need to digitise the reports in order to make them more available for others at the museum archive. At the same time, this piece of technology was also envisaged to support the creation and teaching of ‘Artefact-projects’. The paper discusses how the socio-materiality of the ‘Artefact-project’ and the affordances of the semantic technologies mutually affected the technology development process, and how the DAD found its uses in more ‘semantic-ready’ settings.
Morrison, Ciarán and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Bosnic, Iris and Thomas, Jennifer and Savage, Jamie (... more Morrison, Ciarán and Rimpiläinen, Sanna and Bosnic, Iris and Thomas, Jennifer and Savage, Jamie (2022) Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care : A Refresh Post-COVID. [Report] (https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00082203)
In the lead up to the pandemic, the implementation and use of digital health solutions and awareness of the field were steadily on the rise. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented hike in the provision and the use of digital health and care solutions. This was a direct response of the health and care services globally to the various national lockdown measures implemented at the time. While such high levels of use of digital tech in health and care delivery are expected to fall post pandemic, the levels will remain much higher than those observed before the pandemic. This pandemic-accelerated proliferation of digital health and care solutions predictably pushed the sector onto the world stage, as the underlying infrastructures, legislation and guidance for these solutions needed to be realised. This report has been informed by large-scale desktop research of academic and grey literature, drawing information on post-COVID developments in digital health and care from international sources and across all levels of government, academia, business, and industry. The report begins with a looking at the enablers and drivers affecting the digitalisation of health and care, followed by a digital health and care market overview. After this, the report is organised into two parts: Part 1 reviews the various technical developments and Part 2 examines softer developments in digital health and care post-COVID. These developments are presented under overarching themes of the transformation of health and care services, migration from analogue and legacy systems to modern digital approaches, the acceleration of digital innovation in health and care, and the acceptance of digital in health and care. The primary takeaway from this review of the emerging trends in digital health and care is that there is now an established acceptance for digital health and care solutions as part of health and care service delivery. The pandemic has acted as a catalyst for change in the sector, with citizens expecting digital technology to play a part in the delivery of their health and care.
Interprofessional Simulation in Health Care. Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2019
This chapter illustrate how the social and material arrangements for interprofessional simulation... more This chapter illustrate how the social and material arrangements for interprofessional simulation produces different conditions for learning. The first section focuses on the emerging medical knowing, affective knowing and communicative knowing in the socio-material arrangements of three locations involved in the simulation, i.e. the simulation room, the observation room and the reflection room, during the course of events in the scenario. The second section focuses on emerging rhythms of collaboration. Different ways of relating to the manikin as a technical, medical and human body, and the relevance of these findings for simulation pedagogy are described.
This is an ethnographic case-study of research and development practices taking place in an inter... more This is an ethnographic case-study of research and development practices taking place in an interdisciplinary project between education and computer sciences. The Ensemble-project, part of the Technology Enhanced Learning programme (2008-12), has studied case-based learning in a number of diverse settings in Higher Education, working to develop semantic technologies for supporting that learning. Focussing on one of the six research settings, the discipline of archaeology, the current study has had three purposes. By opening up to scrutiny the practices of research and development, it has firstly sought to understand how a shared research question is answered in practice when divergent research approaches are brought to bear upon it. Secondly, the study has followed the emergence of a piece of semantic technology through these practices. The third aim has been to assess the advantages and disadvantages of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) in studying unfolding, open-ended processes in real time. Through critical ethnographic participation, multiple ethnographic research methods, and by drawing on ANT as theoretical practice, the study has shown the precarious and unpredictable nature of research and development work, the political nature of research methods and how multiple realities can be produced using them, and the need for technology development to flexibly respond to changing circumstances. We have also seen the mutual adoption and extension of practices by the two strands of the project into each others’ domains, and how interdisciplinary tensions resolved, while they did not disappear, through pragmatic changes within the project. The study contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS) where studies on the ‘soft sciences’, such as education, are few, and a new field of Studies in Social Science and Humanities (SSH) which is emerging alongside and from within the STS. Interdisciplinary endeavours between fields pertaining largely to the natural and the social sciences respectively have not been studied commonly within either field.
How do divergent, competing and collaborating human and non-human actors - the socio-materialitie... more How do divergent, competing and collaborating human and non-human actors - the socio-materialities - present at any educational setting affect the process and outcome of a design process? How do the affordances of the technology being developed interact with these socio-materialities present in the setting? Usually our attention is on the final outcome of a design process, while the trials and tribulations designers and researchers face during the process of design are faded out of the picture as irrelevant. It is this mundane minutiae that this presentation delves into.
In this presentation we will focus in detail on one instance of technology design, the development of a prototype for use in archaeology teaching. The presentation draws upon a longitudinal ethnographic case-study of Ensemble (2008-11), an interdisciplinary research and technology development project between education and computer sciences (see Rimpilainen 2012). We will examine how a prototype for a Data Aggregating Document (DAD), a piece of semantic educational software, emerged through interdisciplinary practices engaged by the Ensemble, and how the socio-materiality of the archaeology setting and the affordances of the semantic technologies mutually affected the technology development process. We will also see how the designers often worked at the “mercy” of the socio-materialities involved in the process, and guided by them, rather than the other way round. Theoretically the presentation pertains to the broad field of sociomaterial theories (Pickering 1995) and Actor-Network Theory (e.g. Law 2004, Latour 1987, Latour 2005, Mol 2002).
Book chapter in: Social and Professional Application of Actor-Network Theory for Technology Devel... more Book chapter in: Social and Professional Application of Actor-Network Theory for Technology Development. (Ed.) Tatnall, A. (2012) IGI Global, Hershey, pp. 46-57.
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On December 31st, 2019, the World Health Organisation received a report from the Chinese government detailing a cluster of cases of ‘pneumonia of unknown origin’, later identified as novel coronavirus. The virus, now referred to as COVID-19, quickly spread and was officially declared a global pandemic on March 11th. COVID-19 has put health services under enormous strain globally. Turning to digital methods for collating data on cases, associated symptoms and the routes through which the virus may be spreading has been a common response. Human-powered contact tracing, although resource-intensive, is still considered to be the most effective way of tracking and helping to curtail the spread of infectious diseasesi. Intense efforts are underway to develop digital tools that can augment and automate some of these processes, such as the NHSX app or Singapore’s TraceTogether app, however, these are often beset with technical and privacy-related issues. This report reviews digital approaches that involve citizens as co-actors in efforts to support contact tracing, which may include elements of both location/proximity monitoring and symptom reporting, the latter representing a type of crowdsourced disease surveillance.ii This is approached from the perspectives of public health data needs, privacy-centred architectures, technologies and standards, and digital ethics. The aim is to inform an approach to digital contact tracing that is consistent with Scottish policy around secure, transparent, participatory and privacy-respectful data sharing for health and wellbeing. As such, some of the insights and recommendations are applicable to broader aspects of digital health in Scotland. The report collates expert answers to the following questions: • What are the desirable outcomes arising from the automation of symptom and contact tracing data collection at scale? (Prof Jill Pell, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow); • How might the distributed system be architected to be secure and respectful of privacy from the outset? (Prof Bill Buchanan, OBE, School of Computing, University of Napier); • What communications standards and methods would best support the approach? (Prof Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow); • What are the ethical challenges and what steps should Scottish Government take to secure public trust? (Prof Claudia Pagliari, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh)
The fast spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world has put health services under an enormous strain. Turning to digital means for collating data on the spread of the virus, the associated symptoms, as well as the routes through which it may be spreading has been a common response. The situation, the associated technologies and the practices of their use vary across the globe and evolve rapidly. This report provides a global snapshot of the different types of technologies in use or in development for surveillance of COVID-19 at the beginning of April 2020. By the time this report is published, the situation will have developed further. The body of the report presents short descriptions of a selection of different apps from around the world. More detailed data tables are in Appendix 1 and include references used.
This booklet summarises the findings from the 'Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care: A Refresh post-COVID' report.
In the lead up to the pandemic, the implementation and use of digital health solutions and awareness of the field were steadily on the rise. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented hike in the provision and the use of digital health and care solutions. This was a direct response of the health and care services globally to the various national lockdown measures implemented at the time. While such high levels of use of digital tech in health and care delivery are expected to fall post pandemic, the levels will remain much higher than those observed before the pandemic. This pandemic-accelerated proliferation of digital health and care solutions predictably pushed the sector onto the world stage, as the underlying infrastructures, legislation and guidance for these solutions needed to be realised. This report has been informed by large-scale desktop research of academic and grey literature, drawing information on post-COVID developments in digital health and care from international sources and across all levels of government, academia, business, and industry. The report begins with a looking at the enablers and drivers affecting the digitalisation of health and care, followed by a digital health and care market overview. After this, the report is organised into two parts: Part 1 reviews the various technical developments and Part 2 examines softer developments in digital health and care post-COVID. These developments are presented under overarching themes of the transformation of health and care services, migration from analogue and legacy systems to modern digital approaches, the acceleration of digital innovation in health and care, and the acceptance of digital in health and care. The primary takeaway from this review of the emerging trends in digital health and care is that there is now an established acceptance for digital health and care solutions as part of health and care service delivery. The pandemic has acted as a catalyst for change in the sector, with citizens expecting digital technology to play a part in the delivery of their health and care.
In November 2022, DHI was commissioned by UKRI to inform Workstream 2 of the £20m MINDSET Programme, a “test and trial a platform for the distribution and procurement of mental health and wellbeing XR experiences, products and solutions”. DHI developed a three-stage approach to address a specific set of questions posed by UKRI - Current State Mapping; Co-designing Future State, Recommendations. The approach included a desktop and literature review, interviews with procurement experts and suppliers, a series of co-design workshops prior to an analysis of findings to inform the report recommendations.
On December 31st, 2019, the World Health Organisation received a report from the Chinese government detailing a cluster of cases of ‘pneumonia of unknown origin’, later identified as novel coronavirus. The virus, now referred to as COVID-19, quickly spread and was officially declared a global pandemic on March 11th. COVID-19 has put health services under enormous strain globally. Turning to digital methods for collating data on cases, associated symptoms and the routes through which the virus may be spreading has been a common response. Human-powered contact tracing, although resource-intensive, is still considered to be the most effective way of tracking and helping to curtail the spread of infectious diseasesi. Intense efforts are underway to develop digital tools that can augment and automate some of these processes, such as the NHSX app or Singapore’s TraceTogether app, however, these are often beset with technical and privacy-related issues. This report reviews digital approaches that involve citizens as co-actors in efforts to support contact tracing, which may include elements of both location/proximity monitoring and symptom reporting, the latter representing a type of crowdsourced disease surveillance.ii This is approached from the perspectives of public health data needs, privacy-centred architectures, technologies and standards, and digital ethics. The aim is to inform an approach to digital contact tracing that is consistent with Scottish policy around secure, transparent, participatory and privacy-respectful data sharing for health and wellbeing. As such, some of the insights and recommendations are applicable to broader aspects of digital health in Scotland. The report collates expert answers to the following questions: • What are the desirable outcomes arising from the automation of symptom and contact tracing data collection at scale? (Prof Jill Pell, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow); • How might the distributed system be architected to be secure and respectful of privacy from the outset? (Prof Bill Buchanan, OBE, School of Computing, University of Napier); • What communications standards and methods would best support the approach? (Prof Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow); • What are the ethical challenges and what steps should Scottish Government take to secure public trust? (Prof Claudia Pagliari, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh)
The fast spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world has put health services under an enormous strain. Turning to digital means for collating data on the spread of the virus, the associated symptoms, as well as the routes through which it may be spreading has been a common response. The situation, the associated technologies and the practices of their use vary across the globe and evolve rapidly. This report provides a global snapshot of the different types of technologies in use or in development for surveillance of COVID-19 at the beginning of April 2020. By the time this report is published, the situation will have developed further. The body of the report presents short descriptions of a selection of different apps from around the world. More detailed data tables are in Appendix 1 and include references used.
This booklet summarises the findings from the 'Emerging Trends in Digital Health and Care: A Refresh post-COVID' report.
In the lead up to the pandemic, the implementation and use of digital health solutions and awareness of the field were steadily on the rise. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented hike in the provision and the use of digital health and care solutions. This was a direct response of the health and care services globally to the various national lockdown measures implemented at the time. While such high levels of use of digital tech in health and care delivery are expected to fall post pandemic, the levels will remain much higher than those observed before the pandemic. This pandemic-accelerated proliferation of digital health and care solutions predictably pushed the sector onto the world stage, as the underlying infrastructures, legislation and guidance for these solutions needed to be realised. This report has been informed by large-scale desktop research of academic and grey literature, drawing information on post-COVID developments in digital health and care from international sources and across all levels of government, academia, business, and industry. The report begins with a looking at the enablers and drivers affecting the digitalisation of health and care, followed by a digital health and care market overview. After this, the report is organised into two parts: Part 1 reviews the various technical developments and Part 2 examines softer developments in digital health and care post-COVID. These developments are presented under overarching themes of the transformation of health and care services, migration from analogue and legacy systems to modern digital approaches, the acceleration of digital innovation in health and care, and the acceptance of digital in health and care. The primary takeaway from this review of the emerging trends in digital health and care is that there is now an established acceptance for digital health and care solutions as part of health and care service delivery. The pandemic has acted as a catalyst for change in the sector, with citizens expecting digital technology to play a part in the delivery of their health and care.
In November 2022, DHI was commissioned by UKRI to inform Workstream 2 of the £20m MINDSET Programme, a “test and trial a platform for the distribution and procurement of mental health and wellbeing XR experiences, products and solutions”. DHI developed a three-stage approach to address a specific set of questions posed by UKRI - Current State Mapping; Co-designing Future State, Recommendations. The approach included a desktop and literature review, interviews with procurement experts and suppliers, a series of co-design workshops prior to an analysis of findings to inform the report recommendations.
In the lead up to the pandemic, the implementation and use of digital health solutions and awareness of the field were steadily on the rise. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented hike in the provision and the use of digital health and care solutions. This was a direct response of the health and care services globally to the various national lockdown measures implemented at the time. While such high levels of use of digital tech in health and care delivery are expected to fall post pandemic, the levels will remain much higher than those observed before the pandemic. This pandemic-accelerated proliferation of digital health and care solutions predictably pushed the sector onto the world stage, as the underlying infrastructures, legislation and guidance for these solutions needed to be realised. This report has been informed by large-scale desktop research of academic and grey literature, drawing information on post-COVID developments in digital health and care from international sources and across all levels of government, academia, business, and industry. The report begins with a looking at the enablers and drivers affecting the digitalisation of health and care, followed by a digital health and care market overview. After this, the report is organised into two parts: Part 1 reviews the various technical developments and Part 2 examines softer developments in digital health and care post-COVID. These developments are presented under overarching themes of the transformation of health and care services, migration from analogue and legacy systems to modern digital approaches, the acceleration of digital innovation in health and care, and the acceptance of digital in health and care. The primary takeaway from this review of the emerging trends in digital health and care is that there is now an established acceptance for digital health and care solutions as part of health and care service delivery. The pandemic has acted as a catalyst for change in the sector, with citizens expecting digital technology to play a part in the delivery of their health and care.
In this presentation we will focus in detail on one instance of technology design, the development of a prototype for use in archaeology teaching. The presentation draws upon a longitudinal ethnographic case-study of Ensemble (2008-11), an interdisciplinary research and technology development project between education and computer sciences (see Rimpilainen 2012). We will examine how a prototype for a Data Aggregating Document (DAD), a piece of semantic educational software, emerged through interdisciplinary practices engaged by the Ensemble, and how the socio-materiality of the archaeology setting and the affordances of the semantic technologies mutually affected the technology development process. We will also see how the designers often worked at the “mercy” of the socio-materialities involved in the process, and guided by them, rather than the other way round. Theoretically the presentation pertains to the broad field of sociomaterial theories (Pickering 1995) and Actor-Network Theory (e.g. Law 2004, Latour 1987, Latour 2005, Mol 2002).