Socially Assistive Robot Support to Aid Recovery After Critical Illness

Funder	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Recipient Organization	Heriot-Watt University
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Sep 12, 2021
End Date	Sep 11, 2025
Duration	1,460 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Student; Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2602515`

Grant Description

This PhD will develop robot pilots that aim to support patients who are rehabilitating after a critical illness.

They will work with their supervisor at HWU and pilot in the assistive living lab and in the hospital a small number of technical pilots (e.g. physiotherapy exercise) by the robot.

They will also undertake a series of case studies with qualitative feedback from patients and staff to evaluate the potential for service implementation of SARs these studies will also take place in years 1 and 4 of the PhD, with years 2 & 3 focused on the robot pilots.