April, 2008
The paper: Effective collaboration for healthcare by bridging the reality gap across media-physical spaces, by Kei Hoshi, K and John Waterworth, was accepted for presentation at PETRA: 1st International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, in Athens, July 2008.

March, 2008
Tthe first prize in the Grand Challenge for Presence Competition organised by PEACH: Presence Research in Action, has been awarded to John Waterworth of the Q-Life group.

The competition called for "ideas for a Grand Challenge project with a 5 to 10 year horizon addressing the key objectives and questions in Presence research while enabling powerful applications. The project should be ambitious, hard, medium to long term (e.g., ~10 year horizon with 3 year milestones say). It should engage the needed communities in Human Cognition, Human-Machine Interaction and Machine Cognition around a focal problem. Finally, such a project should lead to major advancement in Presence Theory, Experiment and Technology, and result in major positive social impact".

Feb 21-22, 2008 in Oulu, Finland
Kick off meeting for our new eHealthcare project with partners in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Scotland and Ireland:

Competitive Health Services in Sparsely Populated Areas - eHealth Applications across the Urban-Rural Dimension

A 1 606 823 €uro 3-year project funded by the EU Northern Periphery Programme (2007-2013)