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Design and implementation of welfare technologies for elderly citizens

Marie is doing research at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies, design research, and aging studies. Her research focuses on the design and implementation of welfare technologies – also known as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) -  for elderly people. Based on ethnographic and qualitative methods her research examines the intermingling of welfare technologies, elderly users, and everyday practices. More specifically it explores visions, expectations, and ideas for welfare technological innovations in healthcare, and the social and material effects of these techno-political initiatives as they unfold in practice. Fieldwork is being conducted in the Center for Healthy Aging’s affiliated municipalities.

Fields of interest

• Science and Technology Studies (STS)
• Innovation Studies
• Ageing Studies
• Ethnographic methods

Current research

Implementation of care technologies for elderly citizens in Copenhagen, Ishøj, and Vordingborg municipality

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Academic research profile

I have done interdisciplinary research in the intersections between Social Science, Science and Technology Studies, Anthropology, and Interaction design. My research interests center around the design, implementation and use of Welfare Technologies, and their relations with and effect for the intended elderly users. Moreover, I am interested in Public Private innovation practices, and how ‘partnerships’, ‘users’, and ‘healthy ageing’ are imagined and done within these frameworks for design and innovation in healthcare and eldercare. My research skills include ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative methods (Interviews and focus groups among others).

Employment History

• 20011 – 2014 PhD Student in the Interaction design group (http://www.itu.dk/research/ixd/) and the Technologies in Practice group (http://itu.dk/tip/) at the IT University of Copenhagen. Participation in the Innovation Project Lev Vel (http://lvvl.dk)
Focus; Ethnographic studies of Welfare Technology within a Public Private Innovation Project. The dissertation explores the design of Welfare Technologies for elderly people within the project Lev Vel, and their relations with the intended elderly users.

• 2010 Scientific assistant at the IT University of Copenhagen
Focus; Research participation in the Innovation Project Lev Vel. Activities include planning, coordination, execution and documentation of project workshops, and planning the ITU’s participation in project activities. Academic Degrees

• 2015 PhD dissertation ‘Infrastructuring Design – an ethnography of Welfare Technology within Public Private Innovation’. Supervised by Brit R. Winthereik (IT University of Copenhagen), Lone Malmorg (IT University of Copenhagen), and Helen Verran (University of Melbourne, Australia),

• 2010 MA in Science and Information Technology, IT University of Copenhagen • 2006 BA of Arts; Communication and Psychology, Roskilde University Research Activities and projects (selected)

Participation in Research Projects

• 2015- : Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA), Research in Center for Healthy Aging.

• 2010-2012: Project LevVel, Participating as PhD student in the project LevVel (http://lvvl.dk); a public-private and user driven innovation project funded by the Capital Region of Denmark and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and higher education. The aim was to develop Welfare Technologies and services for ‘active’ elderly citizens.

• 2010: Project SeniorInteraction, Participating as Master student in the project SeniorInteraktion (http://seniorinteraktion.dk); a public-private and user driven innovation project funded by the Danish Business Authority, aimed at the development of Welfare Technologies for elderly citizens.