Yesterday, Ingvar Tjostheim did a great job presenting our paper "Virtual Tourism in a Game Environment: Untangling Judged Affordances and Sense of Place" at the virtual version of HCII 2020…
Better Future for Healthy Ageing
This week we attended (remotely) the BFHA2020 conference in Zagreb, presenting a paper entitled: Not “the computer” but “the place”: designing and evaluating future ambient spaces for improved quality of…
New book chapter published by Academic Press!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128169582000046
Visiting PhD students finish their work with us
Photo (taken by Åke Holmlund) shows Ines with John Waterworth in the departmental corridors. Somaye Rahini and Ines Ayed have been with us for the last few months, on short-term…
New paper on meditative/restorative environments
http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?language=en&pid=diva2%3A1362402&dswid=-3696 Access to leisure and wellbeing can be difficult to arrive at due to constraints in health, income, location and time. With shifting demographics ( inversion of the aging pyramid)…
New book chapter in press!
We are happy to announce the new book chapter by John Waterworth, Mark Chignell and Henry Moller, to be published next year in the edited book: Technology and health: Promoting…
Presence in St Petersburg
John Waterworth represented Q-Life at the DTGS 2019 conference in beautiful St. Peterburg. His keynote presentation was called "The Primacy of Presence: Supporting Psychological Wellbeing with Interactive Technology." The topic…
Presence and human development
John Waterworth presenting a paper on changes in the sense of presence over the lifespan, and how this might relate to some psychological problems and their remediation with interactive technology.…
IT Seniors try VR
Yesterday our IT-Senior group in Åsele had the opportunity to try out a basic VR implementation, during one of our regular bi-weekly meetings at Åsele Library. Although they found it…
Old people are our future!
Throughout the developed world more people live longer, whereas childbirth rates are relatively static or even falling. The result is that as time passes, there are more and more old…