Award for Outstanding Innovation in Digital Health and Social Care
Prize: National/international honour
- Professor David Sanders (Recipient), Dr Giles Tewkesbury (Recipient), Dr Malik Haddad (Recipient), Dr Martin Clifford Langner (Recipient) & Dr Alexander Gegov (Recipient)
Pioneering research from the University of Portsmouth that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to open up a new world of possibilities for children with disabilities has won an E&T International Innovation Award.
The Awards celebrate people, projects and organisations revolutionising the world through excellence in engineering and technology. The University won the Outstanding Innovation in Digital Health and Social Care award.
The University of Portsmouth collaborated with the Chailey Heritage Foundation to develop intelligent real-time digital systems to enhance the use of powered wheelchairs. These will enable children with high levels of disability to drive their own wheelchairs. Some for the very first time.
The Awards celebrate people, projects and organisations revolutionising the world through excellence in engineering and technology. The University won the Outstanding Innovation in Digital Health and Social Care award.
The University of Portsmouth collaborated with the Chailey Heritage Foundation to develop intelligent real-time digital systems to enhance the use of powered wheelchairs. These will enable children with high levels of disability to drive their own wheelchairs. Some for the very first time.
| Awarded date | 19 Nov 2020 |
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| Degree of recognition | International |
| Granting Organisations | The Institution of Engineering and Technology |
| Awarded at event | International Innovation Awards |
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