Faculty Member, Technologies in Practice
PhD Fellow
Thesis Title: Care Moves: Figuring Movement in Old Age Homecare
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Randi Markussen
Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen |
About
CareMoves is a research project focused on movements in old age homecare. It is led by Peter A. Lutz, PhD Research Fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in the United States and Sweden, two countries that face the demographic challenge of an aging population. Movement helps center a number of important challenges and emerging tensions in old age homecare. These include moving from home into a care facility, everyday mobility – e.g. getting from A to B – as well as the timing, spacing and acting of homecare delivery. Movement is often understood in literal terms. However it also involves figurative dimensions such as the link between movement and independence, care as emotional movement and the sense of social connection engendered with IT devices. In this project movement is positioned as an ontological heuristic to empirically explore how tensions surface in the field of old age homecare. This includes how tensions are entangled with movements situated by homecare trajectories (the sites, actors, plans and actions). The ambition is to contribute scientific knowledge and inform IT design and policy interventions which aim to alleviate some of the tensions in care. Theoretical intersections between anthropology, science & technology studies (STS), human-computer interaction (HCI), design and care science inform its analytical approach.
Some keywords are: actor-network theory (ANT), aging home care, anthropology (medical, relational, sociocultural, visual), design, ecology, eHealth, ethnography, friction, information technology (IT), material-semiotics, movement, science and technology studies (STS), socially-appropriate technologies.
I look forward to new contacts with related interests.
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