Participants, Organizers, and Community Partners


Organizers

Kellie Morrissey completed her PhD in University College Cork’s School of Applied Psychology in 2016. She now works at Open Lab, Newcastle University, where she is primarily involved in exploring the role of technology and service design for dementia-friendly community initiatives.

Amanda Lazar is a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University. She completed her PhD at the University of Washington in 2015. Her research has focused on the ways that technologies designed for health and wellbeing position and support individuals as they age.

Jen Boger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada and the Schlegel Research Chair in Technology for Independent Living. Her research investigates the development of intelligent technologies that support aging and wellbeing, with a focus on people with dementia and their circle of care.

Austin Toombs completed his PhD in Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing in 2016. His research has focused on maker and hacker communities, and how the development of a maker identity relates to conceptions of care and community relationships. He now works at Open Lab, Newcastle University, exploring the intersections of various kinds of community and social care in the context of digital civics and computing technologies.

Community Partners

The Alzheimer’s Association – Colorado Chapter: the AA is the largest non-profit funder of Alzheimer’s disease research; its local chapters seeks to increase awareness and offer resources for those affected by the disease. http://www.alz.org/co/

Senior’s Resource Center: the SRC is a non-profit provider of information, services and advocacy for seniors in the Metro Denver area and surrounding communities. Their programs and services are designed to help seniors remain independent, living in their own homes. http://srcaging.org

Access Gallery: the Denver Access Gallery is an inclusive nonprofit organization that engages the community by opening doors to creative and educational opportunities for people with disabilities to access and experience the arts. It has recently pioneered a series of community arts projects with people with dementia entitled “Granny Does Graffiti”. http://accessgallery.org

Dementia-Friendly Denver: Dementia-Friendly Denver is a working group across the Denver Metro area, which aims to help make Denver a dementiafriendly community. Attendees from this group will primarily include business people who are interested in ways of ensuring that dementia-friendly businesses can be affordable, profitable, and engaging for communities. http://www.dementiafriendlydenver.org

Participants’ Position Papers

Deepti Aggarwal, Philip Goebel, and Rohit Ashok Khot. Caring for the Caregivers of People with Dementia. (file)

Arlene Astell, Erica Dove, Alexandra hernandez, Karen Cotnam, Philip Joddrell, Sarah Smith, and Maggie Ellis. Challenging negative perceptions and low expectations of people with dementia through technology. (file)

Natalie Birbeck. Launchspot: A Space for those Experiencing Mental Health Challenges to Affect Their Own Futures. (file)

Erica Dove and Arlene Astell. Designing Motion-Based Technology for People Living with Dementia. (file)

Sarah Foley, John McCarthy, and Nadia Pantidi. Designing conversation probes to support meaningful engagement with people with dementia. (file)

Stephan Huber, Jan Preßier, Name Ly Tun, and Jörn Hurtienne. Evaluating Interaction-Triggered Emotions in People with Dementia. (file)

Phil Joddrell, Arlene Astell, and Sarah Smith. Improving App Accessibility for People Living with Dementia: Bridging the Gap Between Developers and Users. (file)

Yamini Karanam, Luiz Henrique Cavalcanti, and Richard Holden. Participatory Design with Dementia Stakeholders—an Agile Framework. (file)

Fares Kayali, Naemi Luckner, Peter Purgathofer, and Katharina Werner. Ethical Considerations for Designing Technology for People with Dementia. (file)

Gail Kenning and Rens Brankaert. Everyday Sounds of Dementia: Bringing the world in using soundscapes. (file)

Gail Kenning. Making It Together; Reciprocal approaches to design to Promote Positive Wellbeing for People Living with Dementia. (file)

Kiel Long, Lyndsey Bakewell, Róisín McNaney, Konstantina Vasileiou, Mark Atkinson, Manuela Barreto, Julie Barnett, Mike Wilson, Shaun Lawson, and John Vines. Support Networks and Informal Carers: Connecting Those That Care. (file)

Amon Rapp, Federica Cena, Guido Botella, Alessio Antonini, Alessia Calafiore, Stefania Buccoliero, and Maurizio Tirassa. Interactive Maps for Cognitive Disabilities. (file)

Sarah Smith and Arlene Astell. The power of contemporary ICT’s when promoting opportunities to enhance engagement and participation in psychosocial dementia research. (file)

David Unbehaun, Sebastian Hofheinz, Konstantin Aal, Daryoush Vaziri, Julia Barnick, Rainer Wieching, and Volker Wulf. Challenges in participaotry design for people with dementia and their social environment. (file)

Daniel Welsh. A Ticket to Talk: Scaffolding Intergenerational Interactions For Dementia. (file)