In this blog post, academics from CROWC present their recommendations for policymakers, practitioners, and politicians tasked with making the NHS more efficient and effective through greater use of digital technology.
In this blog post, CROWC's Dr Fergus Bolger considers the possible consequences of increased automation in the workplace.
In this blog post, CROWC's Dr I-Shuo Chen considers how the continual development of smarter robots offers an opportunity to rethink what it means to be human.
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A short-term personal loans provider in the UK was doing brisk business and enjoying steady growth until late 2017. The firm provided personal loans through self-employed agents who worked door-to-door across some of the poorer areas of the North. The company was low-tech, agents carried their own note books for keeping track of loans and payments. Each agent had their own geographical patch and knew their customers personally. The business was so successful that the owner was reputedly able to take out £40 million in profits over a decade.
Academics working on the Innovation, Management and Practice (IMPact) research centre's Technology Adoption in Healthcare project have proposed a new aggregated technology acceptance framework.