Imagining the user: On designing technology with older test users
Neven, Louis. "‘But obviously not for me’: robots, laboratories and the defiant identity of elder test users." Sociology of health &...
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- Mar 22
Unboxing AI - but how?
Technologies don't exist in a vacuum, but are social phenomena: the way they are designed, produced and used is contingent on their...
- Feb 21
Big Data in Medicine: Promises and Pragmatism
Greene, Jeremy A., and Andrew S. Lea. "Digital futures past the long arc of big data in medicine." The New England journal of medicine...
- Feb 13
Datafication of Health: From Self-tracking to soft resistance
Image source Ruckenstein, Minna, and Natasha Dow Schüll. "The datafication of health." Annual review of anthropology 46 (2017): 261-278....
- Feb 3
Emplacing data centers: How digital technologies perpetuate marginality
Johnson, Alix. "Data centers as infrastructural in‐betweens: Expanding connections and enduring marginalities in Iceland." American...
- Dec 14, 2022
How is the public becoming dependent on BigTech for healthcare?
In May 2022, the European Commission published a proposal for European Health Data Space (EHDS) to regulate the sharing of health data...
- Dec 12, 2022
Technologies don’t reduce the workload for nurses, but change the work tasks
Pols, Jeannette (2012). Care at a Distance: On the Closeness of Technology. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Technological...
- Dec 7, 2022
Strained Collaborations: Can social robots prevent dementia?
Jeon, C., Shin, H., Kim, S., & Jeong, H. (2020). Talking over the robot: A field study of strained collaboration in a dementia-prevention...
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