The main research interests of Somaya Ben Allouch involve acceptance, (long term) use and evaluation of technologies, specifically social robotics, ubiquitous technologies, assistive technologies and wearables. She has been working from 2002 to 2014 at the University of Twente (the Netherlands) where she obtained her PhD in 2008 focusing on the acceptance and use of ambient intelligent technologies. Dr. Ben Allouch has been a visiting researcher at the Ambient Intelligence Research Lab of Stanford University in 2011 and 2012. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments and guest editor for journals such as the journal of Social Robotics and the Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. Furthermore she is involved in various (inter)national) third-party funded research projects and supervises different PhD projects.

PRESENTATION 2018

Workshop – a handbook for successful implementation

The potential of technical interventions for healthcare and wellbeing, such as games for health, is promising. However, the successful implantation of these technical interventions is difficult. The implementation of a good idea from scratch is a long process with ups and down. Literature provides various theories and models for the implementation of these interventions by the most important stakeholders. However, these theories and models are not very pragmatic. Therefore, within Vitaal Twente (www.vitaaltwente.nl), a regional partnership in the eastern part of the Netherlands, a digital handbook for successful implementation is developed in co-creation with clinical, technical and scientific partners. This handbook contains various chapter focusing on important steps during the implementation of technical intervention for healthcare and wellbeing. During the workshop, these chapters will be presented and discussed with the participants. One of the first chapters focus on aligning the technology used and clinical aim and another chapter focusses on the proper evaluation of the technical intervention. The aim of this handbook is to help clinical, technical and scientific partner with the implantation of technical intervention for healthcare and wellbeing. Working together on successful implantation.