Centering the tension between critical perspectives to advance HCI research on health and ageing

Technology designers and developers have focused on the domain of health and aging for decades. Recently, researchers are adopting critical perspectives which push back on prior ways of approaching technologies in these spaces. I center these and other tensions between practice-based and critical approaches in my work, arguing that it is important to rigorously attend to and learn from both of these approaches. In this talk, I will present several projects on technology for health and aging. First, I will argue for the importance of understanding the tension between critical and practice-based approaches, and how these can be traced in our research. Then, I will present my work that seeks to leverage these tensions to advance design.

The seminar is also available on Zoom: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/92923579919?pwd=d1Zxd3JYMG85RTdEV3hwd2tjNGo3UT09