Felicity Jowitt

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About Felicity

Felicity Jowitt is an Industrial designer with experience of working in such diverse fields as sheet steel furniture design, space experimental equipment design, the characterisation of massive shape memory alloy actuators for rock splitting, rehabilitation engineering and designing products to improve the quality of life of people with continence management problems.

Research Interests

Non-Invasive Continence Management System

The system was designed for women who have continence management difficulties. A completely novel device in the field of continence management, it removes the urine from the body of the user as quickly as it is produced, into a remote container which can be emptied at the convenience of the user. This project was funded by Action research and the European Union.

TACT3

Two products which address major worries for continence pad users, the fear of leakages and the fear of smelling of stale urine, were requested by people with continence difficulties.  Smart underwear that informs the user when their continence pad has leaked and a colour change odour detector have been designed, developed and tested in the TACT3 project.  This project was funded by the “New Dynamics of Ageing” Programme.

Other Interests

The safety aspects of cycling, especially electric assist bicycles
The design of products to help people with continence difficulties
Reusable sanitary protection
Rehabilitation engineering

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Journal Papers

(2013) Du, X., Assadi, MZ., Jowitt, F., Brett, PN., Henshaw, S., Dalton, J., Proops, DW., Coulson, CJ. and Reid, AP., Robustness analysis of a smart surgical drill for cochleostomy., Int J Med Robot 9 (1) : 119- 126 Download publication

(2012) van den Heuvel, EA., Jowitt, F. and McIntyre, A., Awareness, requirements and barriers to use of Assistive Technology designed to enable independence of people suffering from Dementia (ATD), Technology and Disability 24 (2) : 139- 148 Download publication

(2011) Van den Heuvel, EA., Jowitt, F., Long, A., Worthington, J., Slack, M., Drake, M., Fernandes, B. and Gaydecki, P., Smart underwear-an assistive technology developed for continence pad users., Assistive Technology Research Series 29 26- 32

(2011) Fernandes, B., Gaydecki, P., Jowitt, F. and van den Heuvel, EA., Urinary incontinence: A vibration alert system for detecting pad overflow, Assistive Technology 23 (4) : 218- 224

(2008) Xu, Y., Macaulay, MC., Jowitt, FA., Clarke-O'Neill, SR., Fader, MJ., van den Heuvel, EA. and Cottenden, AM., A computerised real-time measurement system to locate the position of the urine stream in designing urine collection devices for women, Medical Engineering and Physics 30 (4) : 531- 537

(2007) Macaulay, M., van den Heuvel, E., Jowitt, F., Clarke-O'Neill, S., Kardas, P., Blijham, N., Leander, H., Xu, Y., Fader, M. and Cottenden, A., A noninvasive continence management system - Development and evaluation of a novel toileting device for women, Journal of Wound Ostomy and Continence Nursing 34 (6) : 641- 648

(2003) Tinnion, E., Jowitt, F., Clarke-O'Neill, S., Cottenden, AM., Fader, M. and Sutherland, I., The further development of the active urine collection device: A novel continence management system, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine 217 (4) : 291- 296

(2000) Tinnion, E. and Jowitt, F., The active urine collection device: A novel continence management system focusing particularly on the needs of disabled women, Disability and Rehabilitation 22 (16) : 745- 748

(1999) Wolff, H., Gamble, S., Barkley, T., Janaway, L., Jowitt, F., Halls, JAT. and Arrand, JE., The design, construction and calibration of a carefully controlled source for exposure of mammalian cells to extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields, Journal of Radiological Protection 19 (3) : 231- 242