February 2011

New journal paper in New Ideas in Psychology
From intention to action: the role of presence
Giuseppe Riva, John Waterworth, Eva Waterworth & Fabrizia Mantovani

January 2011

Start of our new SILHOUETTE project:
uSIng noveL information and communication tecHnologies fOr the sUpport of Elderly's acTive parTicipation in the information sociEty

November 2010

Paper by the Competitive Health Project team accepted by Telemedicine and e-Health journal
Transnational Comparison: A Retrospective Study on e-Health in Sparsely Populated Areas of the Northern Periphery

Paper by Daniel Fällman and John Waterworth published in Human Technology journal

October 2010

Paper by Marlene Sandlund, Eva Lindh Waterworth & Charlotte Häger-Ross
accepted for Developmental Neurorehabilitation journal
Using motion interactive games to promote physical activity
and enhance motor performance in children with cerebral palsy

Start of our new FP7 Regions of Knowledge project
RICHARD
Regional ICT-based Clusters for Healthcare Applications and R&D integration

September 2010

AGNES: Involving users in innovation
Invited presentation to AAL session at ICT2010, Brussels, Sept 27-29

AGNES project full consortium meeting in Linz, Austria, Sept 22-23

Presentation at Innovation Conference in Lahti, Finland, Sept 16-27

Monica Winge, Lars-Åke Johansson, Monica Nyström, Eva Lindh-Waterworth, Benkt Wangler (2010). The need for a new care model: Getting to grips with collaborative home care MedInfo2010 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2010.

July 2010
Paper by Daniel Fällman and John Waterworth accepted for Human Technology journal

May 3-5 2010
We welcome our ten AGNES project partners
- from Spain, Germany, Austria, Greece, Sweden and Italy -
to Umeå for our second international consortium meeting.

March 2010

New paper in Journal of Consciousness Studies
On Feeling (the) Present: An evolutionary account of the sense of presence in physical and electronically-mediated environments
John Waterworth, Eva Waterworth, Fabrizia Manovani & Giuseppe Riva

December 2009/January 2010

Book chapter in Immersed in Media
Mediated Presence in the Future by Eva L Waterworth & John Waterworth

November 2009

Presence 2009, Los Angeles, USA
Full paper by Kei Hoshi & John Waterworth
Tangible Presence in Blended Reality Space

2nd IASTED conference on Telehealth and Assistive technology, Cambridge, USA
Full paper by Ulla-Maija Pesola & Eva Lindh Waterworth
Evaluating e-Health services for transnational implementation within the sparsely populated areas of northern periphery

October 2009

ISHIMR 2009, Kalmar, Sweden
Full paper by Ulla-Maija Pesola & Eva Lindh Waterworth
Evaluating e-health services for transnational implementation: an experience report.

ICUH 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
Full paper by Ulla-Maija Pesola and Eva Lindh Waterworth
Evaluating and utilizing eHealth services to increase access to healthcare in sparsely populated areas.

AGNES project presentation at AAL Forum 2009, Vienna

 

September 2009 and earlier

Start of the new AGNES project
User-sensitive Home-based Systems for Successful Ageing in a Networked Society

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

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

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