Summary
Matthew is a Senior Designer in the Helix Centre, working within the UK DRI Care Research & Technology Centre at Imperial. He brings a Human-Centred Design expertise to the research and technolgoy development aims of Centre.
Within Helix, he has led major projects bringing a Human-Centred Design approach to clinician and public facing healthcare challenges. Notably, he worked on the Hark app that was sold to DeepMind, and led the centre's End-of-Life care stream of work including the ReSPECT project and Digital Care Planning spin out. He has played a key role in shaping the Helix centre from its inception in 2014.
He is a graduate of Imperial College (Mechanical Engineering 2002) and the Royal College of Art (Industrial Design Engineering 2004). He was a Senior Research Associate at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, leading several commercial and research council funded projects.
Prior to joining Helix he set up a design consultancy Studiohead Ltd working extensively with Imperial College to create groundbreaking innovations in surgical education and simulation.
Publications
Journals
Wairagkar M, De Lima MR, Harrison M, et al. , 2021, Conversational artificial intelligence and affective social robot for monitoring health and well-being of people with dementia., Alzheimers & Dementia, Vol:17 Suppl 11, ISSN:1552-5260, Pages:e053276-e053276
Tiersen F, Batey P, Harrison MJC, et al. , 2021, Smart home sensing and monitoring in households with dementia: user-centered design approach, Jmir Aging, Vol:4, ISSN:2561-7605, Pages:1-20
Warren L, Harrison M, Arora S, et al. , 2019, Working with patients and the public to design an electronic health record interface: A qualitative mixed-methods study, Bmc Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Vol:19, ISSN:1472-6947