Q-LIFE RESEARCH GROUP
NEWS and COMING EVENTS in 2009

November: Full paper accepted for 2nd IASTED international conference
on Telehealth and Assistive technology. November 2-4 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Ulla-Maija Pesola and Eva Lindh Waterworth
Evaluating e-Health services for transnational implementation within the sparsely populated areas of northern periphery

October: Two new health service papers to be presented
Pesola, U-M & Waterworth, E L
Evaluating e-health services for transnational implementation: an experience report
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14th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2009), Sweden
Evaluating and utilizing eHealth services to increase access to healthcare in sparsely populated areas.
8th International Conference on Urban Health: ICUH 2009, Nairobi, Kenya

October 1: Presenting the AGNES project at AAL Forum 2009, Vienna

September 1: Planned start of the AGNES project
User-sensitive Home-based Systems for Successful Ageing in a Networked Society

August 26: Panel session at Interact 2009, Uppsala, Sweden
Responsive Interfaces: Mobility, Emotion and Universality
Mark Chignell, Naotsune Hosono, Deborah Fels, Danielle Lottridge and John Waterworth

July: Paper accepted for publication in Journal of Consciousness Studies
Waterworth, J. A., Waterworth E. L., Mantovani, F. & Riva, G (in press, 2010).
On feeling (the) present: an evolutionary account of the sense of presence in physical and electronically-mediated environments.

June 24-26: Project meeting in Umeå
Competitive Health Services in Sparsely Populated Areas project
we welcome our partners from Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Scotland

June 21-23: Paper presentation in Verbania-Intra, Italy
Tools, Perspectives and Avatars in Blended Reality Space
K. Hoshi, U-M. Pesola, E. L. Waterworth & J. A Waterworth
CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology

June 10: Paper accepted by journal Physical Therapy Reviews
A conceptual framework for design of interactive computer play in
rehabilitation of children with sensorimotor disorders

Marlene Sandlund, Kei Hoshi, Eva Lindh Waterworth & Charlotte Häger-Ross

June 9-13: Paper presentation in Corfu, Greece
Ageing in a Networked Society – Social Inclusion and Mental Stimulation
John Waterworth, Soledad Ballesteros, Christian Peter, Gerald Bieber, et al.
Workshop on Affect and Behaviour Related Assistance in Support for the Elderly
PETRA 2009

May 21-23: Paper presentation in Catania, Italy
User-sensitive Home-based Systems for Successful Ageing
Waterworth, J. A., Ballesteros, S. & Peter, C.
HSI 2009 - 2nd international conference on Human System Interaction.

April 21-23: Co-presenting a session in Prague, Czech Republic
The body and the urban space
Helgason, I., Smyth, M., McCall, R. and Waterworth, J. A.
FET Science Beyond Fiction


April 1: Chapter in new book published by Routledge

Mediated presence in the future, Waterworth, J. A. & Waterworth E. L.
In Cheryl Campanella Bracken & Paul Skalski (eds)
Immersed in Media: Telepresence in Everyday Life.

March, 2009: Article (The Presence of Happiness) in popular booklet:
Benyon, D., Smyth, M. & Helgason, I. (eds): Presence for everyone.

February 4-5: Project meeting in Inverness, Scotland
Matchmaking event for the Competitive Health Services in Sparsely Populated Areas project
with partners in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Scotland and Ireland

January 31: Chapter in new book published by IOS Press
Designing ICT for the over 80s, Waterworth, E. L. & Waterworth J. A.
In Topo, P. & Östlund, B. (eds)
Dementia, Design and Technology

updated October 13 2009