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Hermione Lovel formerly Senior Lecturer in the School of Primary Care, Manchester University; now Senior Public Health Specialist in the East of England Public Health Group, Department of Health, Cambridge, responsible for the DoH's Inequalities agenda. Has a long-standing interest in Health Care Planning and Evaluation, especially among dispersed refugee and asylum seekers.
Gareth Evans Senior Lecturer, School of Informatics (Webpage)
Acting project leader while Somers was on study leave. Researches
into software and computer-based systems for people with disabilities, including
speech technology (synthesis and analysis tools), alternative interface
technology, and multimedia sensory stimulation, involving signal and sound
processing, gesture recognition, and computer graphics.
Zeinab Mohamed Research Assistant on ESRC "AAC and PLONEs" project. Former nurse-midwife in Somalia, since 1997 RA on various research projects at Manchester University. Also worked as a Linkworker for Manchester Advice, Manchester Social Services, and as a Health Care Advocate at the Robert Darbishire Practice, Rusholme Health Centre.
Marianne Johnson Research student. Recipient of inaugural F.N. Marshall Interdisciplinary PhD Studentship Award from the Institute of Health Sciences. Former occupational therapist, studied French and Linguistics at Brighton University before coming to Manchester to do an MPhil on communication strategies for PLONEs, looking at parallels between AAC for diabled users, and PLONEs whose only "disability" is that they don't speak English. Now studying for an interdisciplinary PhD jointly supervised in the School of Nursing and the School of Informatics. Thesis topic: Use of pictographic symbols by patients with limited English.
Kat Hargreaves Research student. Studied for MLangEng degree at UMIST. recently submitted PhD in which she developed a Somali grammar with the goal of providing an English-Somali machine translation system. See brief description here .
Chen-Li Kuo Research student. Studied for MSc in Machine Translation at UMIST. Now working on PhD, developing a English-Chinese spoken language machine translation system with a focus on the interpretation and translation of intonation in English. See brief description here .
Xiaocong Xu Research student. For her MSc in Informatics dissertation she developed a computer-based interface for Chinese patients.
Ritsa Pitta Research student. For her MSc in Software Engineering dissertation she developed a generic tool for symbol- and audio-based doctor-patient communication systems.
Kai Ye and Bing Wang Informatics students, working on English-Chinese and Chinese-English spoken-language translation systems based on a commercially available components.
Babak Ghobadi Informatics student, working on English-Farsi translator for prescription labels, interfaced with a handheld OCR pen.
Paul Blenkhorn Professor of Assistive Technologies, School of
Informatics (Webpage)
Researches
into speech and sight rehabilitation engineering needs for people with
disabilities. Assistive devices have been developed including hand-held and
head-control systems.
Allan Ramsay Professor of Theoretical Linguistics, School of
Informatics (Webpage)
Works on
developing systems that can understand a range of languages. Especially
interested in techniques for higher-order logics in order to extract the
information which is implicit in what is actually said. Recently worked on
Athos, a robust, adaptable, multilingual, modular framework for
developing applications for spoken language interaction