All Outputs (9)

Consulting an oracle; repurposing robots for the circular economy (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports a new process which can be used to re-purpose a robot at the end of its primary life. Repurposing a robot enables it to continue delivering value beyond the point at which it might have been otherwise recycled or scrapped. The repu... Read More about Consulting an oracle; repurposing robots for the circular economy.

Understanding consumer attitudes towards second-hand robots for the home (2024)
Journal Article

As robot numbers in the home increase, creating a market for second-hand robotic systems is essential to reduce the waste impact of the industry. Via a survey, consumer attitudes of United Kingdom participants towards second-hand robots were investig... Read More about Understanding consumer attitudes towards second-hand robots for the home.

Introducing the concept of repurposing robots; to increase their useful life, reduce waste, and improve sustainability in the robotics industry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based on current definitions of electronic waste, the robotics industry faces a future where products created for both business and consumer markets could be required to meet regulations to manage the control of electronic products at the end of thei... Read More about Introducing the concept of repurposing robots; to increase their useful life, reduce waste, and improve sustainability in the robotics industry.

Integration of ecodesign principles within small product design consultancies (2018)
Thesis

Each year in the UK (United Kingdom) hundreds of millions of consumer products are sold, leading to many millions of tonnes of waste being buried or burned annually. While there are many large businesses that produce consumer products, in the UK smal... Read More about Integration of ecodesign principles within small product design consultancies.

The hibernating mobile phone: Dead storage as a barrier to efficient electronic waste recovery (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Authors Hibernation, the dead storage period when a mobile phone is still retained by the user at its end-of-life, is both a common and a significant barrier to the effective flow of time-sensitive stock value within a circular economic mo... Read More about The hibernating mobile phone: Dead storage as a barrier to efficient electronic waste recovery.

Sustainability: Methods and practices (2013)
Book Chapter

The practice of ecoDesign: A study of small product design consultancies (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports on an ongoing study that explores how UK based designers, in small design consultancies (SDCs), locate information and learn new skills. Semi-structured interviews were used to improve understanding of the context within which thes... Read More about The practice of ecoDesign: A study of small product design consultancies.

Which pill when (2005)
Book Chapter

Which pill when: Medicine packaging that aids compliance in taking prescribed drugs (2004)
Report

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the industry partner in this project, was concerned about the problem
of non-compliance in taking drugs. It prompted them to initiate this study into the means by
which compliance could be integrated into medicine packaging.... Read More about Which pill when: Medicine packaging that aids compliance in taking prescribed drugs.