Knowing Me, Knowing You (Aha!)
My research interests (aside from not so subtle Partridge references), have somewhat changed since beginning the course, but always centred on public health. When applying for the course I was at first interested in working with food and technology in later life. However this direction of research has become more focused towards the role of technology in intergenerational relationships and dementia. This change of direction has been heavily influenced by my role in the DemYouth project where I developed an application to help bridge conversational gaps that arise between young people and those with dementia.
There are many pursuits in this area but I have been specifically interested in the role of ethics and consent in technologies designed for those with dementia. Consent has different definitions to many people, as addressed in a paper I spoke of in earlier blog posts (Luger & Rodden 2013). I want to look at how we can design for consent and the ethical implications on systems that don’t.
What should I read next to further these interests? I have found two CHI papers which I feel can further my knowledge in these areas. The first paper is Ly, Preßler, Gall, Hurtienne & Huber’s ‘Tangible Interaction Drawers for People With Dementia’. I’ve chosen this paper as it explores the uses of tangible user interfaces when designing for those with dementia, which somewhat blends common approaches of using someone’s physical objects or and application based study.
The second paper I have chosen is Lindsay, Brittain, Jackson, Ladha, Ladha & Olivier’s ‘Empathy, Participatory Design and People with Dementia’. This is a paper other course-mates have recommended to me that I am yet to read. I am a believer in the participatory design process and I think it will be interesting to see how it is approached in this context.
I have been asked to comment on Lydia’s research interests and recommend a paper after our Gabber session this week. Like myself Lydia also has an interest in public health but looks at women’s and sexual health, with her undergraduate work looking at sex education & religion in Mississippi, and her Masters work looking at FGM. Lately Lydia’s research has been more pointed towards areas including: breaking down barriers in hidden and marginalised communities with technology; breaking down stigmas; and sex workers rights.
Finding a paper for Lydia has proven difficult, with a small pool of papers to choose from and Lydia already being well versed on the topic. I have chosen Ahmed, Jackson, Ahmed, Ferdous, Rifat, Rizvi, Ahmed & Mansur’s paper on their platform: Protibadi. This paper looks at a platform aimed to map and share women’s stories of sexual harassment in Bangladesh, based on the results of a years work of ethnographic studies. The paper’s focus on breaking barriers and connecting people is something that I think relates well to Lydia’s research interests.
References
Ahmed, S. I., Jackson, S. J., Ahmed, N., Ferdous, H. S., Rifat, M. R., Rizvi, a. S. M., Ahmed, S. & Mansur, R. S. (2014), ‘Protibadi: A Platform for Fighting Sexual Harassment in Urban Bangladesh’, Proceedings of the 32Nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems pp. 2695–2704.
URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557376&CFID=864767391&CFTOKEN=32092829
Lindsay, S., Brittain, K., Jackson, D., Ladha, C., Ladha, K. & Olivier, P. (2012), ‘Empathy, participatory design and people with dementia’, the 2012 ACM annual conference pp. 521–530.
URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2207676.2207749
Luger, E. & Rodden, T. (2013), ‘An informed view on consent for UbiComp’, Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint . . . pp. 529–538.
URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2493446
Ly, N. T., Preßler, J., Gall, D., Hurtienne, J. & Huber, S. (2016), Tangible interaction drawers for people with dementia, in ‘Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct – UbiComp ’16’, ACM Press, New York, New York, USA, pp. 157–160.
URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2968219.2971434
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