Our Team has a very strong track record of collaboration with the University of Sheffield Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology Group and the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare. We also collaborate on projects with other leading research institutions including MMU and UCL.
The team is also a member of the Devices for Dignity (D4D) Healthcare Technology Co-operative and leads the Assistive Technology theme within D4D.
Research Projects
The team is involved in a range of cutting edge developments in the assistive technology field, research carried out by the group has a strong focus on user-centred design.
Unspoken Voices
Unspoken Voices – Kath Broomfield, NIHR Clinical Fellowship We are supporting Kath in her PhD fellowship which is about the ‘unspoken ...
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I-ASC Project
Identifying appropriate symbol communication aids for children who are non speaking We are partners on this NIHR Grant (HS&DR – 14/70/153) in collaboration ...
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AAC Evidence Base
Communication Matters, research matters: evidence of need project. 2011 We were a partner in this project, funded by the Big ...
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D4D AAC Project
Communication aid design – Devices for Dignity AAC project. 2009 We investigated the design requirements of users’ of communication aids, ...
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DfE AAC Grants
DfE Alternative and Augmentative Communication Grant (North Consortia). 2013 We were a project partner within this Department for Education grant work ...
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Sheffield Support Snood
HeadUp – The Sheffield Support Snood. 2011 We were partners on the development phase of this head support for people ...
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Gaze Project
Functional Gaze Control in Young Children with Cerebral Palsy. 2013 We supported this project led by UCL looking at functional eye ...
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