Category: Research

We ended the academic year '23-'24 inspired with our annual writing retreat. The Writing Retreat is a great opportunity to really retreat with our team and work together, read and write on research around technology and dementia for several days in a row…

“During the first months of my PhD, I delved deeply into this subject through my participation in the HOMEDEM Training School at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where I met many researchers committed to improving quality of the lives of people with dementia…”

Maarten Houben and Rens Brankaert from the ECDT were involved in the Age-Fi project, which could be seen and, above all, experienced at the Dutch Design Week in October. The installation was intended to get people to think about technologies that support aging at home in an interactive way, using dystopian videos.

Our new PhD candidate, Teis Arets, talks about his experiences during his internship at SVRZ in Terneuzen. SVRZ is an expert in elderly care, and living, care and welfare are beautifully coordinated. For someone who, apart from an experience with his own grandmother, had no experience with dealing with people with dementia, this internship was an indispensable step in Teis' career!

On November 1, Maarten Houben received his PhD cum laude for his thesis “Design for Everyday Sounds in Dementia”. After the promotion ceremony, three of the renowned committee members gave a lecture about their passion and work in the field of Dementia, Technology and Design during the mini-symposium organized by the ECDT (...)

This project, called QoLEAD (Quality of Life by use of Enabling AI in Dementia), will bridge the gap between artificial intelligence and warm care for people with dementia. In QoLEAD the focus is entirely on the quality of life of people with dementia and their environment. Together with them we will work on solutions to their challenges and wishes in important areas of life such as social contact, safety, meaning and personal autonomy.