Care

Exploring the cross-pollination between practices and the design of technologies that may help us care. Care is multiple, and as a concept, it deals with myriad topics, including the body, health and wellbeing, the environment, and any disruptions within.

Different perspectives on care include placing the global and the intimate in relation to the ethical, relational, political and transformative approaches to not only human-centered but more-than-human worlds.

WORKSHOP

LIFE IN TRANSITIONS

"Life in Transitions: The Role of Technology in Supporting Wellbeing in the Heart of Change" at the Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI '24) in Uppsala, Sweden (October 2024).

Organizers: Armagan Karahanoglu, Laia Turmo Vidal, Daniel Harrison, Tina Ekhtiar, Teresa Almeida, Anna Vallgårda, Madeline Balaam

Ph.D. supervision

Designing for occupational stress (Ongoing)

PhD Student: Laís Lopes, University of Madeira, Portugal

Roundtable/report

Charting the Future of Sustainable Health: Navigating AI, Digitized Bodies, and Care

In October 2023, I co-chaired a roundtable "Charting the Future of Sustainable Health: Navigating AI, Digitized Bodies, and Care " at the WASP-HS community meeting on AI, Sustainability and Agenda 2030.

Chairs: Pedro Sanches and Teresa Almeida

View/Download the Report here.

PANEL

CONVERSATIONS ON CARE

In October 2022, I moderated a panel titled "Conversations on Care" at the Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI '22) in Aarhus, Denmark.

Moderator: Teresa Almeida

Panelists: Anna Vallgårda, Jonas Fritsch, Sarah Homewood, Winnie Soon

RESEARCH VISIT & exhibition

Intimate Interactions

In September 2021, I did an ERASMUS+ research exchange in Linz, Austria. I visited Prof. Irene Posch at the Department of Design and Technology, University of Art and Design Linz.

Intimate Interactions, a project by Teresa Almeida, Giulia Tomasello, and Irene Posch was developed during this visit and exhibited at Ars Electronica 2021.

PUBLICATION

Caring for Intimate Data in Fertility Technologies

In May 2021, Maryam Mehrnezhad presented "Caring for Intimate Data in Fertility Technologies" at the ACM CHI: CHI '21 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. See video teaser.

Authors: Maryam Mehrnezhad and Teresa Almeida

View/Download the paper here.

This research received extensive press coverage and was later invited to presented at Fertility Conference 2022, the 15th joint fertility meeting organised by the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists (ARCS), the British Fertility Society (BFS) and the Society for Reproduction and Fertility (SRF).

PUBLICATION

Designing with the Immune System

In May 2020, Gerd Geleff Nielsen presented "Designing with the Immune System: The Abject, Bodily Fluids, and Micro(be) Interactions" at ARTECH '21: the 10th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts.