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#Bio
Francisco Nunes is a senior researcher at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS. He holds a Master in Informatics from the University of Porto (2010), and PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from TU Wien (2017). His research focuses on understanding the everyday practices of patients and carers, using qualitative fieldwork, and designing technologies for self-care and informal care contexts, using participatory research approaches.
#Keynote talk "Towards Mundane Personal Assistants"
Personal assistants have become more and more common in our homes and pockets. These technologies have the potential to support our everyday lives in meaningful ways, however, personal assistants will need to support more than "trivial" activities of our lives, such as adjusting the air conditioning temperature or start playing music. In this keynote I will provide some clues on how to design personal assistants that truly support our everyday lives in practical terms. Drawing on fieldwork with people living with chronic or long-term conditions, I will make the case for mundane self-care technologies that focus on supporting and enhancing the lives of patients and carers in practical terms. The insights from this fieldwork should motivate attendees to look into practical ways of supporting the lives of users of personal assistants, contributing to a novel generation of these technologies.
Francisco Nunes is a senior researcher at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS. He holds a Master in Informatics from the University of Porto (2010), and PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from TU Wien (2017). His research focuses on understanding the everyday practices of patients and carers, using qualitative fieldwork, and designing technologies for self-care and informal care contexts, using participatory research approaches.
#Keynote talk "Towards Mundane Personal Assistants"
Personal assistants have become more and more common in our homes and pockets. These technologies have the potential to support our everyday lives in meaningful ways, however, personal assistants will need to support more than "trivial" activities of our lives, such as adjusting the air conditioning temperature or start playing music. In this keynote I will provide some clues on how to design personal assistants that truly support our everyday lives in practical terms. Drawing on fieldwork with people living with chronic or long-term conditions, I will make the case for mundane self-care technologies that focus on supporting and enhancing the lives of patients and carers in practical terms. The insights from this fieldwork should motivate attendees to look into practical ways of supporting the lives of users of personal assistants, contributing to a novel generation of these technologies.
