📢Please RT - PARTICIPANTS NEEDED. I'm exploring how people living with #dementia and family carers talk to others about the diagnosis. Please take part in my INTERNATIONAL survey by clicking here: bit.ly/TalkingAboutDe… Thanks to everyone who took part already & for the RTs 😊

"It is a myth that older people & those with complex needs are too risky to include in research. They can and should contribute to identifying important research questions, priority setting, designing & participation in studies & disseminating findings." doi.org/10.1093/ageing…

“It is never too early to start with dementia prevention, but it is also never too late” — prof Miia Kivipelto on the importance of lifestyle interventions to help avoid and ameliorate dementia Miia Kivipelto #defeatingdementia

⁦Teun Toebes⁩ “people with dementia are people first. With the way we treat them in society, they suffer a social death, in addition to their disease” #defeatingdementia

Mensen met dementie zijn ‘partner in design’ bij het toepasbaar maken van technologie. Aldus prof. Wijnand IJsselstein van de TU Eindhoven op de bijeenkomst #DefeatingDementia. Warme technologie. Dat ondersteunt Alzheimer Nederland graag! Wijnand IJsselsteijn #ECD

How VR can *improve* human empathy and expand our moral imagination? 📽️ with Wijnand IJsselsteijn Romina Cachia Sanna Järvelä Ivo Hristov from a presentation European Parliament last week. LINK: multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreamin… TU Eindhoven Philosophy and Ethics Group Eindhoven ESDiT Consortium alliance TU/e, WUR, UU, UMC Utrecht (EWUU) TomorrowsValueConflicts

Press video of last week's STOA Panel panel with Wijnand IJsselsteijn. Useful interview insights from Sanna Järvelä & Ivo Hristov. Thanks to TU Eindhoven, Philosophy and Ethics Group Eindhoven, ESDiT Consortium, alliance TU/e, WUR, UU, UMC Utrecht (EWUU), & TomorrowsValueConflicts researchers for their support 🇪🇺🇪🇺

Heel inspirerende, warme meeting TU Eindhoven zojuist met het bestuur van Alzheimer Nederland en hun Raad van Toezicht, onder leiding van Ank Bijleveld-Schouten Ank Bijleveld - Schouten We hebben onze #warmetechnologie mogen toelichten vanuit het #ECDT (ecdt.nl) Gerjoke Wilmink

Mooie toepassingen gezien! Ontworpen met en voor mensen met #dementie. Dank Wijnand IJsselsteijn en Rens Brankaert , team en studenten #ECDT

#33AEC Don't miss the #poster of the TU Eindhoven ECDT team on their research and development of tools for the exploration of touch with PwD Wijnand IJsselsteijn

New PhD job opportunity at TU Eindhoven working with people with dementia, and our team of psychologists and designers at ECDT (ecdt.nl) on co-designing AI-driven products and services for people with dementia and their caregivers. jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/cod… #QoLEAD

If you like #AI, love #design, and want to improve the lives of people with #dementia, make sure to check out this PhD #vacancy - fully paid position TU Eindhoven with Rens Brankaert and myself, as part of the wonderful team at the ECDT Minha Lee Giulia Perugia Alzheimer Nederland

Happy to share that my first paper "Affective and Cognitive Reactions to Robot-Initiated Social Control of Health Behaviors" co-authored with my supervisors Chao Zhang Raymond Cuijpers Wijnand IJsselsteijn has been accepted as a full paper presentation at #HRI2024. Stay tuned for more info😆!

We have a position open for an EngD (Engineering Doctorate) on interactive AI & dementia care! This is a fully-funded program of two years after your master's degree. Please share!🙏 Rens Brankaert Rucha Wijnand IJsselsteijn jobs.tue.nl/nl/vacature/en…

Het feit dat OpenAI willens en wetens de stem van Scarlett Johansson kopieert *zonder haar toestemming* is het zoveelste voorbeeld van hoe generatieve AI plagiaat tot de nieuwe norm van kennis en creativiteit verheft.

New open access publication in the area of human-robot proxemics: Comfortable Crossing Strategies for Robots by Margot Neggers Raymond Cuijpers Peter Ruijten and Simon Belgers link.springer.com/article/10.100… published in International Journal of Social Robotics

Wijnand IJsselsteijn (Wijnand IJsselsteijn) starts as the new DNLF fellow at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study next month. We wish him all the best! bit.ly/4dkGCqT