Our research will focus upon the development of "SMART" monitoring systems for hospital or home based rehabilitation.  The technology or device must: (1) Provide quantifiable functional benefits for the person with stroke.  (2) 
Improve the efficiency of the therapist or carer's ability to assist.

Collaborators on the project are:  
Professor D Kerwin, University of Bath; Professor S Salmon, Ulster Community Hospitals Trust; Miss M Goose, The Stroke Association; Dr T Hendra, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust; Dr L Shaw, Royal United Hospital NHS Trust, Bath and Westbury Stroke Unit; Dr D Mitcheson, Charnwood Dynamics Ltd.  We are fortunate to have recruited a range of collaborators from academic and clinical settings.  Charnwood Dynamics are our industrial partner. The Stroke Association is particularly important.  They will be supporting the involvement in this project of older people with stroke and their carers and be developing user friendly literature on the project.  The Consortium have a project based web site that can be located at http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/Research/equalconsortium/ 

