dr. F. Nijboer MSc (Femke)

Pharaon

Pilots for active and healthy aging

PHArA-ON’s overall objective is to make smart and active living for Europe’s ageing population a reality by creating a set of integrated, highly customizable and interoperable open platforms with advanced services, devices, and tools including IoT, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, cloud/edge computing, smart wearables, big data, and intelligent analytics. Data privacy, cybersecurity, interoperability and openness will be key design principles to pursue through the requirements generated by PHArA-ON experts. PHArA-ON will be built upon mature existing state-of-the-art open platforms and technologies/tools provided by the partners, which will be customised and will implement cloud technologies, AI techniques and traditional algorithms for big data intelligent analytics. A user-centric approach will be followed.

TRIAS

Integrating digital, spatial and physical mobility in healthcare organisations

Can we reduce the need to travel to reduce CO₂ emissions from transport? Mobility concerns are typically not included in the decision-making processes of many mobility-generating sectors, including the health sector. The digitalisation of the healthcare sector provides opportunities to deliver more local and digital healthcare, thus reducing the need to travel. However, there are several challenges related to the healthcare organisation, and integrated frameworks and organisational arrangements are currently lacking.

The 4-year Triple Access System Planning (TRIAS) project will examine strategies to deliver more local and digital healthcare, aiming to improve the healthcare organisation, accessibility, and quality of healthcare. To do so, we (1) develop, co-create and test new frameworks and tools to optimise healthcare accessibility and efficiency, (2) develop new business cases, financial and organisational arrangements, and (3) develop training and education for the healthcare practice.

TRIAS is one of two research projects funded by NWO under the Knowledge and Innovation Covenant (KIC) call ‘Mobility in a sustainable future’. The main applicant is prof.dr.ing. Karst Geurs (UT, ET). Co-applicants are dr. Anna Grigolon (UT, ET), prof.dr.ir. Erwin Hans (UT, BMS) and dr.ir. Monique Tabak (UT, EEMCS), prof.dr.ir. Vincent Marchau (Radboud University), dr. Sander Lenferink (Radboud University) and dr. Marjolein den Ouden (Saxion). TRIAS is co-funded by Thuiszorg West-Brabant, Isala, RadboudUMC, Gaiyo, Achmea, CZ, Goudappel and Gemeente Enschede. Collaborating partners include Medisch Spectrum Twente (MST) and Careyn.

Contact: Prof. Karst Geurs, University of Twente

For Women in Science Fellowship

Research project at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)

Inclusive and Responsible Innovation of Neurotechnology

Brain-Computer Interfaces are systems that can potentially help people with locked-in syndrome or advanced ALS to communicate with their brain activity. There is still relatively little debate and exchange between people who develop BCIs, ethicists and potential end-users. In my current Veni project I develop a novel and interdisciplinary approach, based on Value-Sensitive Design, Constructive Technology Assessment and Art, to promote inclusive and responsible innovation of Brain-Computer Interfaces. Art is used to help people imagine and debate about future design scenarios. With a fellowship at NIAS I would like to write the “grand finale” paper about this overall approach. In addition, I would like to write an ERC Starting Grant proposal to test this approach in the development of other neurotechnologies and to further investigate how values of end-users can be integrated in the design of neurotechnology.

future BNCI

A roadmap for Brain-Computer Interfacing