Colin Watson – PIP Kit

PIP Kit wooden boxes and print-outs of the paper version of PIP Kit as a Service

PIP Kit Demonstration during the HCI Summer Festival

by Colin Watson Jun 17, 2020

PIP Kit is one of several research projects being showcased at next week’s HCI Summer Festival, being organised jointly by Northumbria University NORTH Lab, City University of London HCID and Newcastle University Open Lab.

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Prize-Winning Research Poster

by Colin Watson Jun 5, 2020

A research-style poster about PIP Kit has won praise in an online university conference. The Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering (SAgE) at Newcastle University held an Online Celebration of Research this week. The poster titled “How Can Lifelogging Help Disability Benefit Claimants?” won “Best Poster”, announced today 5th June 2020 during the conference’s online closing event and later publicly on Twitter.

The Urban Sciences Building at Newcastle University which houses Open Lab

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PIP Kit as a Service

by Colin Watson Apr 6, 2020

The PIP Kit design created during last year’s study helps support advisor-assisted form-filling appointments to make a claim for Personal Independence Payment (PIP). In the current pandemic situation where controls are in place to limit human-to-human transmission, face-to-face (F2F) assistance is severely curtailed. To enable the use of PIP Kit diaries remotely, I have been looking how an online digital service might help advisors and claimants generate, distribute, complete and share information – all without F2F appointments.

Screen capture of press release web page header announcing suspension of face-to-face health assessments

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Face-to-Face Assessments Suspended

by Colin Watson Mar 16, 2020

Due to the current pandemic, the UK government has announced that face-to-face health assessments have been suspended for three months from tomorrow 17th March 2020.

Photograph taken during the laser cutting of 3mm birch plywood to make the wooden enclosure boxes, showing the hinge slots being cut

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PIP Kit Demonstrations at Meadow Well Connected

by Colin Watson Mar 10, 2020

PIP Kit is one of the Open Lab research projects being showcased at next week’s opening of Meadow Well Connected’s new Digi-Suite.

Partial screen capture of the web page documenting the Minister's statement published on parliament.uk

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PIP Health Assessment Contracts

by Colin Watson Mar 10, 2020

The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has previously notified its intent to deploy a new system to deliver a combined PIP and Employment Support Allowance (ESA) / Universal Credit (UC) work capability assessment system. This would be a £3.15 billion contact with a single organisation as part of the Health Transformation Programme (HTP), integrating with a single digital platform developed separately by DWP.

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