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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 &...
Apr 12, 2023


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...
Mar 22, 2023


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 21, 2023


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 13, 2023


Emplacing data centers: How digital technologies perpetuate marginality
Johnson, Alix. "Data centers as infrastructural in‐betweens: Expanding connections and enduring marginalities in Iceland." American...
Feb 3, 2023


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 14, 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 12, 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...
Dec 7, 2022
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