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Event Details
Platform: Microsoft Teams
Date: November 6th, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM EST / 3:00-4:30 PM GMT / 4:00-5:30 PM CET
Registration Link: Microsoft Event Link
Join us for an online seminar hosted by DRS SIGWELL (Special Interest Group in Design for Well-being, Happiness, and Health). This event will showcase three presentations that expand on research originally presented at the DRS conference in Boston, highlighting innovative approaches to enhancing subjective well-being through design.
The seminar will feature the following presentations:
1. Daily Doses of Well-being: How Everyday Technology Can Support Positive Activities presented by Lisa Wiese, Delft University of Technology
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DRS Paper: Wiese, L., Pohlmeyer, A., and Hekkert, P. (2024) Daily doses of wellbeing: How everyday technology can support positive activities, in Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.795
2. Tinder, I Don’t Like This: Identifying Desired User Interaction Qualities to Support Intimacy Building in the Online Environment presented by Petra Salaric, Loughborough University
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DRS Paper: Salaric, P., Cain, R., Zitkus, E., and Visch, V. (2024) Tinder, I Don’t Like This: Identifying Desired User Interaction Qualities to Support Intimacy Building in the Online Environment, in Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.380
3. Connecting Sustainable and Well-being-enhancing Behaviors: Reflections Through Daily Practices of Young Adults presented by Michael Kowalski and JungKyoon Yoon, PhD, Cornell University
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DRS Paper: Christopher Kowalski, M., and Yoon, J. (2024) Connecting sustainable and well-being-enhancing behaviors: Reflections through daily practices of young adults, in Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.386
The presentations will be followed by a collective Q&A session, offering attendees the opportunity to engage with the researchers and explore how design can positively influence subjective well-being.
Presenter Bios:
Leandro Tonetto is an associate professor at the School of Industrial Design at Georgia Institute of Technology (United States). His research focuses on design for health and subjective wellbeing, focusing on vulnerable populations and digital technologies.
Lisa Wiese is a PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology. Her research focuses on how everyday technologies can be (re)designed so that they foster sustained wellbeing.
Petra Salaric is an entrepreneur and a doctoral researcher at the School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University. Within the area of design for wellbeing, she focuses on behavior change and emotions and specializes in taboo topics.
Michael Kowalski is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Human-Centered Design at Cornell University. His research seeks to empower designers through a greater understanding of the human dimension of more sustainable futures.
JungKyoon Yoon, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design at Cornell University, where he leads the Meta Design & Technology Lab. His research focuses on experience design with an emphasis on affective experience, subjective wellbeing, and design-mediated sustainable behavior.
