Michael Craven

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Biography

Dr. Michael Craven is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. He is engaged with applied projects in collaboration with MATCH's industry and health service partners, primarily in the area of medical device evaluation, including health economic assessments. Dr. Craven has additional experience in electronic engineering and computer science teaching and research, including chip design, design of communication aids, surgical simulation devices & software, collaborative virtual environments & pervasive media.

For details, see http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/match, http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/people/Mike.Craven and http://towardspervasivemedia.ning.com/profile/MichaelCraven?xg_source=profiles_memberList

See also http://www.match.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

- Evaluation methods for healthcare innovations, in particular medical devices. Early stage health economic tools. Health economics reports for NICE and CEP.

- Collaborative Virtual Environments & pervasive computing, in particular applications for media and entertainment. Web technologies including visualisation and applications in tourism.

- Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to pattern recogition, and improvement of learning algorithms. Gesture recognition systems, in particular assistive gesture-to-speech system for persons with motor disability.

- VLSI techniques for analogue neural network design, and analogue computation in general.

- Digital video annotation, for distance learning applications.

- Stereoscopic display technologies for 3D TV

- Teaching quality improvement - using Action Research techniques

- Computer modelling of microwave heating of ceramic materials

Dr. Michael Craven is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. He is engaged with applied projects in collaboration with MATCH's industry and health service partners, primarily in the area of medical device evaluation. He is currently working closely with the NHS National Innovation Centre and Centre for Evidence-based Purchasing. Dr. Craven has additional experience in electronic engineering and computer science teaching and research, including design of communication aids, surgical simulation devices & software, and collaborative virtual environments.

For details, see http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/match, http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/people/Mike.Craven and http://towardspervasivemedia.ning.com/profile/MichaelCraven?xg_source=profiles_memberList

See also http://www.match.ac.uk

Research Summary

I am currently a member of the Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare (MATCH), based in the Faculty of Engineering, where I am developing methods and tools for innovation of… read more

Selected Publications

• DAVEY, S. M, CRAVEN, M. P, MEENAN, B. J, MARTIN, J. L and CROWE, J. A., 2011. Surgeon opinion on new technologies in orthopaedic surgery Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology. 35(3-4), 139-48
• BO LU, JENNIFER L MARTIN, MICHAEL P CRAVEN, STEPHEN P MORGAN and , 2012. Can Health Economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia? International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation: In Press. 11(1/2), 70-87
• MONEY, A.G., BARNETT, J., KULJIS, J., CRAVEN, M. P., MARTIN, J. L. and YOUNG T., 2011. The Role of the User within the Medical Device Design and Development Process: Medical Device Manufacturers' Perspectives BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 11(15),
• CRAVEN, M.P., MORGAN, S.P., CROWE, J.A. and LU, B., 2009. Deploying a spreadsheet tool for early economic value assessment of medical device innovations with healthcare decision makers Journal of Management & Marketing in Healthcare. 2(3), 218-234

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Current Research

I am currently a member of the Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare (MATCH), based in the Faculty of Engineering, where I am developing methods and tools for innovation of healthcare technologies in partnership with medical device companies and the NHS. I continue to collaborate on surgical simulator design. I am involved with a pervasive media project in collaboration with colleagues in the School of History and Learning Sciences Research Institute and a community history group. I maintain an interest in the state-of-art of research areas in computer science and electronic engineering including neural networks, gesture recognition, image analysis, virtual reality, 3DTV and assistive technologies.

Past Research

- Applications of Artificial Neural Networks to pattern recogition, and improvement of learning algorithms.

-Gesture recognition systems, in particular assistive gesture-to-speech system for persons with motor disability

- VLSI techniques for analogue neural network design, and analogue computation in general-

-Collaborative Virtual Environments, in particular applications for media and entertainment

- Web technologies including visualisation and applications in tourism

- Digital video annotation, for distance learning applications

- Stereoscopic display technologies for 3D TV

- Teaching quality improvement - using Action Research techniques

- Computer modelling of microwave heating of ceramic materials

Future Research

I am developing research in the area of innovation and evalution for healthcare technologies including the use of health economics tools. I wish to pursue collaborations in the design and evaluation of surgical simulators. I am interested in developing applications and evaluation methods for pervasive and ubiquitous computing in Healthcare and other applications.

• BO LU, JENNIFER L MARTIN, MICHAEL P CRAVEN, STEPHEN P MORGAN and , 2012. Can Health Economics aid decision making in healthcare innovation in academia? International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation: In Press. 11(1/2), 70-87
• SARAH SHARPLES, JENNIFER MARTIN, ALEXANDRA LANG, MICHAEL CRAVEN, SONJA O’NEILL and JULIE BARNETT, 2012. Medical Device Design in Context: A Model of User-Device Interaction and Consequences Displays.
• KEANE, D., CRAVEN, M. P. and SHARPLES, S., 2012. A vignette study examining the effects of different types of diagnostic procedure and information provision preferences In: Anderson M. (ed.) Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2012. 161-168
• DAVEY, S. M, CRAVEN, M. P, MEENAN, B. J, MARTIN, J. L and CROWE, J. A., 2011. Surgeon opinion on new technologies in orthopaedic surgery Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology. 35(3-4), 139-48
• MONEY, A.G., BARNETT, J., KULJIS, J., CRAVEN, M. P., MARTIN, J. L. and YOUNG T., 2011. The Role of the User within the Medical Device Design and Development Process: Medical Device Manufacturers' Perspectives BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 11(15),
• CRAVEN, M. P. and MORGAN, S. P., 2011. Early Stage Economic Evaluation with a Small Medical Device Start-Up Company Using a Markov Model In: J. Med. Devices, June 2011, Volume 5, Issue 2, 027516. [Abstract, full paper in CD accompanying proceedings of Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD2011), April 12-14, 2011. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA].
• CRAVEN, M. P., LANG, A., MARTIN, J. L. and SHARPLES, S., 2011. Self management of Type II diabetes: the role of blood glucose monitoring In: Healthcare Systems, Ergonomics and Patient Safety 2011 (HEPS 2011), Oviedo, Spain - 22/24 June 2011 [Abstract, full paper in accompanying CD].. p71
• KEANE, D., CRAVEN, M. P. and SHARPLES, S., 2011. Information provision and decision aids for diagnosis in clinical pathways In: Healthcare Systems, Ergonomics and Patient Safety 2011 (HEPS 2011), Oviedo, Spain - 22/24 June 2011 [Abstract, full paper in accompanying CD]. p36
• CRAVEN, M.P., MORGAN, S.P., CROWE, J.A. and LU, B., 2009. Deploying a spreadsheet tool for early economic value assessment of medical device innovations with healthcare decision makers Journal of Management & Marketing in Healthcare. 2(3), 218-234
• CURTIS, K. M., KELLY M. and CRAVEN M. P., 2009. Cricket batting technique analyser/trainer using fuzzy logic. In: IEEE, ed., Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP'09 IEEE Press. 1-6
• CRAVEN,M.P., 2007. Routes and requirements for realizing pervasive medical devices. In: BARDRAM,J.E., MIHAILIDIS, A. and WAN,D., eds., Pervasive Computing in Healthcare CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Ltd, London. 217-241
• MARTIN JL, CRAVEN MP and NORRIS BJ, 2005. MATCH: A new industry-focused approach to medical device development In: Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety. 294-297
• RAMPHAL, P. S., COORE, D. N., CRAVEN, M. P., FORBES, N. F., NEWMAN, S. M., COYE, A. A., LITTLE, S. G. and SILVERA, B. C., 2005. A high fidelity tissue-based cardiac surgical simulator European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 27(5), 910-916
• CRAVEN, M.P., CROWE, J.A., BOTTERILL, N.W., MORGAN, S.P. and WILLIAMS, H.C., 2004. MATCH: a multidisciplinary approach to the advancement of health technology assessment In: Proceedings of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) 11th Annual Scientific Meeting. 41
• CRAVEN MP and MARTIN JL, 2004. How does the Healthcare Industry Involve Users in Medical Device Development? - Pointers for UbiHealth In: UbiHealth 2004: The 3rd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications..
• CRAVEN, M. P. and CURTIS, K. M., 2004. GesRec3D: A Real-Time Coded Gesture-to-Speech System with Automatic Segmentation and Recognition Thresholding Using Dissimilarity Measures Lecture notes in computer science. ISSU 2915, 231-238
• BATES,R., SURMAN,P., SEXTON,I., CRAVEN,M.P., YOW,K.C. and LEE,W.K., 2004. Building an Autostereoscopic Multiple-Viewer Television Display In: The 8th Asian Symposium on Information Display (ASID'04). 400-404
• SURMAN,P., SEXTON,I., BATES,R., LEE,W.K., CRAVEN,M.P. and YOW,K.C., 2003. Beyond 3D television: the multi-modal, multi-viewer TV system of the future In: 12th International Symposium Advanced Display Technologies(FLOWERS'2003).
• KELLY,M., CURTIS,K.M. and CRAVEN,M.P., 2003. Fuzzy recognition of cricket batting strokes based on sequences of body and bat postures In: Proceedings IEEE SoutheastCon 2003. 140-147
• CRAVEN,M.P., NEWMAN,S., FLETCHER,M., SILVERA,B., COORE,D., FORBES,N. and RAMPHAL,P., 2003. Cardiac training simulator using pump with electronic pressure sensor to trigger ventricular fibrillation In: Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2003.
• GEORGE, N., CRAVEN, M., WILLIAMS-MYERS, C. and BONNICK, P., 2003. Using Action Research to Enhance Teaching and Learning at the University of Technology, Jamaica Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. VOL 28(PART 3), 239-250
• KELLY,M., CURTIS,K.M. and CRAVEN,M.P., 2002. Fuzzy Sets and Cricket Batting In: Recent Advances in Simulation, Computational Methods and Soft Computing.
• GEORGE,N., BONNICK,P., CRAVEN,M.P. and WILLIAMS-MYERS,C., 2002. Enhancing Quality in Teaching and Learning at the University of Technology Jamaica In: 14th Annual Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education (AQHE 2002).
• CRAVEN,M.P., FACEY,L. and CURTIS,K.M., 2002. Advances in Tourist Destination Web-site Technology In: 13th Annual Meeting and Conference of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences.
• CRAVEN,M.P., RAMPHAL,P., COORE,D., SILVERA,B., FLETCHER,M. and NEWMAN,S., 2002. Design of an electromechanical pump system for training in beating heart cardiac surgery In: Proceedings of IEEE SoutheastCon 2002. 192-196
• CRAVEN, M., TAYLOR, I., DROZD, A., PURBRICK, J., GREENHALGH, C., BENFORD, S., FRASER, M., BOWERS, J., JÄÄ-ARO, K., LINTERMANN, B. and HOCH, M., 2001. Exploiting interactivity, influence, space and time to explore non-linear drama in virtual worlds In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seattle, United States, 31 March - 5 April. 30-37
• GREENHALGH, C., BENFORD, S. and CRAVEN, M., 2001. Patterns of network and user activity in an inhabited television event Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. 10(1), 35-50
• CRAVEN,M.P., 2001. Broadband Communications - Options and Applications In: Proceedings of Jamaica Computer Society (JCS) 18th Annual Information Technology Conference. 29-32
• GREENHALGH, C.M., PURBRICK,J ., BENFORD, S.D., CRAVEN, M.P., DROZD, A. and TAYLOR, I.M., 2000. Temporal links: recording and replaying virtual environments In: International Multimedia Conference. 67-74
• BENFORD, S., GREENHALGH, C., CRAVEN, M., WALKER, G., REGAN, T., MORPHETT, J. and WYVER, J., 2000. Inhabited television: broadcasting interaction from within collaborative virtual environments ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 7(4), 510-547
• CRAVEN, M.P., BENFORD, S.D., GREENHALGH, C.M., WYVER, J., BRAZIER, C., OLROYD, A. and REGAN, T., 2000. Ages of avatar: community building for inhabited television In: Proceedings of the third international conference on collaborative virtual environments. 189-194
• CRAVEN,M.P., 2000. On-line 3D gesture recognition utilising dissimilarity measures In: Jamaica Conference (JamCon 2000).
• BENFORD, S.D., TAYLOR, I.M., BRAILSFORD, D.F., KOLEVA-HOPKIN, B., CRAVEN, M.P., FRASER, M., REYNARD, G.T. and GREENHALGH, C.M., 1999. Three dimensional visualization of the World Wide Web ACM Computing Surveys. 31(4es), Article 25
• BENFORD, S.D., GREENHALGH, C.M., CRAVEN, M.P., WALKER, G., REGAN, T., WYVER, J. and BOWERS, J., 1999. Broadcasting on-line social interaction as inhabited television In: Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Computer Supported Co-operative Work (ECSCW '99).
• CRAVEN, M.P. and CROSS, T.E., 1996. Enhanced computer modelling for high temperature microwave processing of ceramic materials In: Proceedings of the MRS Spring Meeting.
• CRAVEN, M.P. and CROSS, T.E., 1996. Enhanced computer modelling for high temperature microwave processing of ceramic materials In: Microwave Processing of Materials V, Material Research Society Symposium Proceedings. 351-
• BINNER, J.G.P., CRAVEN, M.P. and CROSS, T.E., 1996. Enhanced Computer Modelling for High Temperature Microwave Processing of Ceramic Materials In: Proceedings of the MRS Spring Meeting.