Wed Aug 19, 2020 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT Online, Zoom
The rapid development of new technologies and artificial intelligence portends a new future for old age and for care work. Can we manage this human-computer relationship in such a way as to assure the quality of life for old people and their care workers and avoid substituting machines for human caring?
Yes, if we inform the development of new technologies with a deeper understanding of the experiences of the aging and care working experiences.
This symposium will pair expert presentations that educate the audience about current and future technologies and a structured discussion about the impact of, needs for, and design of those technologies for home care and assisted living.
The symposium grows from a National Science Foundation funded initiative entitled The Future of Work, and is co-sponsored by IUB IAS (Bicentennial "Envisioning the Perfect Public University” program). The Indiana University School of Informatics has proposed 'The Future Matrix of Care: Communities, Networks, and Technologies' project as a community-based, socially embedded, and interactive model of care using intelligent technologies based on a new understanding of care work. The proposed matrix will transform the landscape of the Future of Work in the provision of care and medical services.
Follow-up Workshop: Applications are also being taken for participation in a 3-hour “co-design” workshop that will bring together in an online setting care workers, stakeholders, and researchers to begin imagining new human-centered technologies in dementia care. We invite Dementia caregivers, including but not limited to - frontline home-based and assisted living caregivers and workers, family members, persons living with dementia, designers and developers of technology for dementia care, and anyone with an intellectual and institutional interest in dementia care. Attendance is limited and acceptance is on a first-come-first-served basis. Participants will receive a $40 gift card.
Please select -' Workshop' in the registration to apply and receive further information. The deadline for applying to the workshop is - August 15th, 2020.
Organizers:
- Dr.Hamid Ekbia, Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington.
- Dr.Selma Sabanovic, Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington.
- Dr.Philip. B. Stafford, Ph.D., Commons Planning Inc.
- Dr.Nathan Ensmenger, Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington.
- Dr.Stasa Milojevic, Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington.
- Dr. Josette Jones, Ph.D., IUPUI.
- Swapna Joshi - Ph.D. Student, Indiana University Bloomington.
