Overview
C a r e M o v e s 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 frictions 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). One practical ambition is to contribute scientific knowledge that informs IT design and policy interventions aimed at alleviating frictions in care. It also aims to construct novel theoretical intersections between anthropology, science & technology studies (STS), human-computer interaction (HCI), design and care science.
Keywords include: 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.
C a r e M o v e s is generously funded with a doctoral fellowship in the Technologies in Practice (TiP) faculty group at the IT University of Copenhagen and additional support from the EU Marie Curie Actions European Reintegration Grant (ERG).
C a r e M o v e s stems partly from an earlier research project funded by the EU Marie Curie Actions Host Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge (ToK) and hosted by Philips Research Europe entitled Social Intelligence For Tele-Healthcare (SIFT).
C a r e M o v e s is scheduled to run for three years and culminate in part with a doctoral thesis. Randi Markussen (primary) and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen (secondary) serve as his dissertation supervisors.
Please check Peter Lutz’ personal website for more information.
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