Loneliness, touch, and its digital mediation
06 June 2024, 4:30 pm–5:30 pm
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Join this event to hear Lili Golmohammadi discuss findings from her research into relationships between loneliness, touch, and digital touch technologies.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Ned Barker
Location
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G02UCL Knowledge LabEmerald St (23-29)LondonWC1N 3QS
In this seminar, Lili will discuss the range of ways in which people frame touch and digital mediated touch in experiences of loneliness, and the methodology she developed to explore this topic.
This event will be particularly useful for designers, social scientists, and wellbeing researchers.
Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online.
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About the Speaker
Dr Lili Golmohammadi
Research Associate in Digital Health Co-design at Kings College London (KCL); Research Fellow at UCL
She works with the Digital Health Hub at KCL, a new resource for supporting the training, co-creation, and translation of digital health technologies.
She provides expertise and mentoring to groups (clinicians, the public, academics) in selecting and applying existing co-design tools, methods, and mindsets to help accelerate the development of technologies that directly benefit patients, healthcare providers and the wider healthcare ecosystem.
More about Dr Lili Golmohammadi