The first keynote speaker for the Tuesday (25th October) has been announced!
We are delighted to have confirmed Professor Arlene J. Astell (PhD, BSc, CClin Psychol), Professor of Assitive Technology and Connected Healthcare at the University of Sheffield.
About Arlene:
Arlene is Ontario Shores Research Chair in Dementia, University of Toronto, Canada, and Professor of Health Services Research in the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH: http://www.catch.org.uk), University of Sheffield, UK. She has over twenty-five years’ experience developing and evaluating interventions to support people to live as well as possible with a dementia diagnosis.
Arlene belongs to the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Aging (CCNA) and is an AGE-WELL (http://agewell-nce.ca) investigator, leading Work Package 1 on User Needs. She is also UK lead of two international projects: AAL-WELL (http://aal-well.weebly.com/index.html), investigating novel technologies to support people with Mild Cognitive Impairment and IN-LIFE, a Horizon 2020 project developing technologies to support older adults with cognitive impairment to live well at home. Arlene’s team across the UK and Canada are collaborating on the AcTo dementia project to enable people around the world to find accessible apps for tablet devices (https://acto.squarespace.com).
Arlene's presentation at the conference will be covering "Cognitive Function and Mental Health: Twin Grand Challenges for Technology".
If you wish to see Arlene's presentation, visit the website and register for the conference at http://www.theiet.org/techaal
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Other speaker highlights:
Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze
Ian Spero