Andrew teaches software design and development on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Andrew's personal interests are in the use of technology to support research in medicine and health care. This is predominantly in the field of physical and mental health whereby he works with interdisciplinary teams to create novel and clinically relevant software solutions.
Andrew Wilson teaches on the following courses:
- BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology
- BSc Computer Science
- MSc Computer Science
- MSc Advanced Computer Science
- MSc Artificial Intelligence
His current research interests and collaborations, with both local NHS partners and regional medical schools, are in the area of developing digital technology solutions for medicine and healthcare, for example:
- Serious games and computer game based learning in medicine and healthcare
- The use of virtual and augmented reality in clinical training and patient rehabilitations
- Mobile Healthcare technology
- Digital healthcare solution as non pharmaceutical interventions
- Human computer interactions in game based healthcare technologies.
Andrew would welcome submissions of interest from suitable applicants for MPhil or PhD projects in the following areas:
- Medical simulations
- Technology to support personalised healthcare
- Technology for health and rehabilitation
- NLP and LLMs in healthcare
Selected publications:
Wilson, A and Adesina, A and Jiao, Y and Douglas, K (2024) A large language model based approach to providing personalised health-related information for osteoporosis patients. Annals of Rheumatic Disease, 83 (S1). p. 204. ISSN 0003-4967
Rao, A and Hassan, S and Evans, D and Nassr, R and Carruthers, D and Wilson, A (2024) A Structured Approach to the Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Eye Examination Simulation. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. pp. 1-15. ISSN 1044-7318
Williams-Bhatti, A and Carruthers, D and Wilson, A (2023) SEPSIS COLLAB: A Virtual Reality Training Simulation For Sepsis Treatment. In: IEEE VR 2023 - 2nd Workshop on XR for Healthcare and Wellbeing - (XR Health) 2023, 25th - 29th March 2023, Shanghai (Online).
Wilson, A and Ramesh, A and Carruthers, D and O’Connor, J (2018) A Prototype Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Game for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Games Based Learning . Academic Conferences and Publishing International, England (pp745-753).
Visit Andrew's ResearchGate profile for a full list of publications.
