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Loneliness, touch, and its digital mediation

06 June 2024, 4:30 pm–5:30 pm

Touch exploration and tactile objects. Image: Denise Ziegler

Join this event to hear Lili Golmohammadi discuss findings from her research into relationships between loneliness, touch, and digital touch technologies.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Ned Barker

Location

G02
UCL Knowledge Lab
Emerald St (23-29)
London
WC1N 3QS

In this seminar, Lili will discuss the range of ways in which people frame touch and digital mediated touch in experiences of loneliness, and the methodology she developed to explore this topic.


This event will be particularly useful for designers, social scientists, and wellbeing researchers.

Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online.


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About the Speaker

Dr Lili Golmohammadi

Research Associate in Digital Health Co-design at Kings College London (KCL); Research Fellow at UCL

She works with the Digital Health Hub at KCL, a new resource for supporting the training, co-creation, and translation of digital health technologies.

She provides expertise and mentoring to groups (clinicians, the public, academics) in selecting and applying existing co-design tools, methods, and mindsets to help accelerate the development of technologies that directly benefit patients, healthcare providers and the wider healthcare ecosystem.

More about Dr Lili Golmohammadi