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This research theme is based around user-centred design and seeks to utilise design principles and practice to enhance and improve quality of life. Groups active in this theme explore how design can improve the way products interface with and enhance peoples’ bodies, activities and life-styles.

There are several groups active under this WIRAD theme and PDR is home to three of the research groups.

Smart Clothes & Wearable Technology (SCWT)

Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototype Research (PAIPR)

Medical Applications Group (MAG)