As part of the AI Hospital project at Osaka University, an electronic wheelchair using advanced smart technology is being test run between 1:00 and 3:00 pm each day for planned future use within Osaka University Medical Hospital. The test started on June 7th. The aim is to allow patients who find it difficult to walk […]
Our research partners at the University of Oxford have launched their AIDE Project website to introduce the project. There is content and there will be updates on what the UK side doing. Check out the new website https://aideproject.web.ox.ac.uk/. The site includes news about the project and helpful resource pages for patients, members of the public, […]
On the 19th May, the leaders of the AIDE project from both Osaka University and the University of Oxford had a zoom meeting with Ms. Maria Leitão-Marques, MEP for Portugal who is also serves on the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA) . https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197635/MARIA-MANUEL_LEITAO-MARQUES/home We gave a short presentation on the […]
This spring, we have been conducting workshops with our Patient and Public Involvement Panel (PPIP) to understand their expectations and concerns about AI in healthcare. In our most recent workshop, PPIP members worked to review and group their expectations and concerns under broader headings. The workshops showed that PPIP members have high expectations that AI […]
We are starting to plan Work Package 5 for which we will conduct a set of focus groups with members of the public, patients, health care practitioners and AI developers. Focus group research involves a small number of people with similar characteristics, for example people who are all patients at Osaka University Hospital, being brought […]