Because no one ever looks under "About". My research is about health, health behaviour and how design can affect behavioural change. My background is in industrial design engineering. I am particular interested in investigating how health is understood from a sociological, psychological and economical point of view. Methodologies of the kind may proof useful in the process of design. Please feel free to contact me: tjhien.liao[at]taik.fi
The conference will take place at the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica hotel and is a joint event between the University of Iceland and Reykjavik University.
Deadlines:
• 12 April, 2010: Submission of workshops, tutorials and panel proposals
• 3 May, 2010: Submission of full papers
• 16 July, 2010: Submission of short papers/posters and interactive demos
• 6 August, 2010: Submissions to doctoral consortium.
Got contact through Turkka. He wrote on uses of innovations in health care technology, the wrist care. Also has a background in humanities, cultural history and is interested in the evolution of technology. He's from Helsinki university, relatively young guy. Read the rest of this entry »
Main pointers 'till summer:
- research focus
- finding project
- finding tutor
Things to put in HR system:
- user inspired design module (OCT, 9 weeks)
- NORDIC conference
Platforms and people to look at:
- Design for all networks - contact Antti Raike form media lab
- national institute for health and welfare hl.fi under development
- Sampsa Hyysalo uses of innovative health care systems wrist care helsinki university
EPIC2010" Do / The way of ethnography
When: August 29-September 1, 2010
Where: Midtown Conference Center, Tokyo, Japan
Papers: Abstract submission deadline March 14, 2010
Workshops: Proposal submission deadline April 22, 2010
Artifacts: Proposal submission deadline May 2, 2010
Pecha Kucha: Proposal submission deadline May 9, 2010
EPIC 2010 will start the evening of Sunday the 29th of August, and close at lunchtime on Wednesday the 1st of September
http://hsr.e-contentmanagement.com/
Is good to find out more about books on health sociology. Look under book reviews. Particular good if you're thinking about buying.
eHealth : combining health telematics, telemedicine, biomedical engineering, and bioinformatics Blobel, Bernd.
University of eastern Finland
Tritonia Academic Library Vaasa
Åbo Akademi University Library
Lapland University Library
Culture and well-being : the collected works of Ed Diener / Ed Diener, editor.
University of Eastern Finland Library
The science of well-being : the collected works of Ed Diener / Ed Diener, editor.
University of Eastern Finland Library
Mental health and well-being in later life / edited by Mima Cattan.
Tampere University Library
24-25 June 2010
Manchester, UK
Organised by the Manchester Architecture Research Centre Read the rest of this entry »
Dates: 9-11 June 2010
Deadline: Monday 3 May 2010, to the FMKJ Secretary at fmkj@ruc.dk. The application must be accompanied by a 2-page PhD project description.
Course venue: Pappersbruket, Osby, Southern Sweden.
The course will take place at Pappersbruket, Broby, Southern Sweden (see www.pappersbruket.se) Accommodation and Ph.D. seminar will all be at the same venue. Transport by train is estimated to take 1 hour and 45 minutes from Copenhagen Central Station.
Co-directors: Dr. Debra Spitulnik (Emory University) and Dr. Thomas Tufte (Roskilde University)
Initial questions to the topic are:
1. How to project your personal voice and the personal voice of your data (e.g. people you interviewed) through out your manuscript?
2. How to retain your personal voice or the personalities that your data represents?
3. How to balance these voices and how to deal with the big emotions in your interview data?
4. How to address the people, test subjects in your research? These question arose when done a research using probes?
Use the link electronic resources
The service is available for 1) TaiK users on the premises (IP) 2) At home (Web VPN) and 3) Through Wireless (Web VPN)
It is a single list listing all databases. Each database contains collections of ebooks, ejournals, etc. Searches for certain topics or titles have to be searched through each data base individually. Later there will be the renewed Nelli portal. It offers a single interface to search through a combined database of various. There's is no such thing as a single database that contains everything. But the Nelli interface helps on this. Read the rest of this entry »
Special Interest Group on Design for Health and Well Being (SIGWELL) The SIG will focus on bringing together designers, design researchers, health professionals and others responsible for the delivery of health care services and products and ‘less traditional’ well being therapies.
You can pay an annual fee to become member
International Journal of Design http://www.ijdesign.org
Design Patterns for Cross-cultural Collaboration Nicole Schadewitz
The Repertory Grid Technique as a Method for the Study of Cultural Differences Oscar Tomico, Evangelos Karapanos, Pierre Levy, Nanami Mizutani, Toshimasa Yamanaka
23-25 May 2010: FISCAR 2010, Helsinki
29 November - 3 December 2010: PDC 2010: The 11th Biennial Participatory Design Conference -- Participation :: the challenge Sydney, NSW, Australia
7-8 October 2010: Designing Health
The Sixth Annual Design Research Conference Call for Papers and Projects. Conference to be held at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute of Washington State University Spokane. Deadline for Submission: 1 April 2010.
15 February 2010 Full papers Workshop proposals
1 May 2010 Short papers Demonstrations Doctoral Consortium
Big guru in Helsinki: Yrjo Engeström
Activity Theory was mainly a result of a larger effort to develop a new psychology based on Marxist philosophy, an effort which started soon after the Russian revolution of 1917. Several programs for restructuring psychology on a Marxist basis were formulated in the 20's and 30's, and very heated debates between proponents of different approaches were not uncommon at that time. One of the first postulates Soviet psychologists agreed upon was the so-called "principle of unity and inseparability of consciousness (i.e., human mind) and activity". The meaning of this principle was that human mind comes to exist, develops, and can only be understood within the context of meaningful, goal-oriented, and socially determined interaction between human beings and their material environment. Read the rest of this entry »
It expresses produced knowledge to be context related, problem focussed and interdisciplinary. It tries to deviate from knowledge creation as we'd know it from practicing science in general. By doing so it puts science as it is in Mode 1, making it seems dated and from a "past" time. Some find Mode 2 lacking on empirical validity, conceptual strength and politically value. I also think it's a bit nonsense, because the way mode 2 is describes seems to be what I thought mode 1 was. No difference. However, it looks more like a critique to how science is practiced nowadays, in silos. Perhaps it rightfully tries to point out that there should be more collaboration.
Chapter from Design Integrations: Research and Collaboration, Poggenpohl and Sato 2009
This project dealt with HISP, Health Information Systems Programme. A programme that involved academia people from all levels (masters, phd's, researchers) and across different continents (Norway, Africa). It applied formations of study and research opportunities to drive development of HISP. E.g. apart from contributing to the HISP the higher education of S. Africa also gained research knowledge and practice of educational value that supported the creation of a new curriculum Health Informatics in Cape town.
Design for negotiation of logics. Uncovering the "spaces in between" and "new meeting grounds". (What does this have to do with participatory design?). Design as trans disciplinary practice. See also mode II knowledge (What is that?). Read the rest of this entry »
Brings approach from critical theory into design. Anthony Dunn, Fiona Raby, Gaver. Seems like an exploitative exercise to learn through confrontation. eliciting reactions from users through the application of provocative artifacts, embodying a critique. This critique could be on society or consumerism as it stands today.
Simon Bowen, younger guy, who took up this methodology and looked into som practical implications. (Led by Chris Rust)
Cottam, H. and C. Leadbeater (2004). Health: Co-Creating Services
Leadbeater, C. and H. Cottam (2008). The User Generated State: Public Services 2.0
Some books:
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies) by Bruno Latour (Author)
The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
by WE Bijker (Author)
Actor Network Theory and After (Sociological Review Monographs)
Articles:
Pinch, Trevor J. and Wiebe E. Bijker. "The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other." Social Studies of Science 14
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