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Dementia patients have a tendency to go wandering off. A new research project at Aarhus University aims to ensure the ethical use of surveillance technology to make it possible to find signs of life in dementia patients who have gone wandering off somewhere. (Model photo: Colourbox.com) Lektor og leder af Center for Overvågningsforskning Anders Albrechtslund står i spidsen for projektet men i tæt samarbejde med pårørende til demente og plejepersonale. Associate Professor Anders Albrechtslund, the Director of the Center for Surveillance Studies, is the leader of the project – which will be working closely alongside both care staff and the families of dementia patients.

2020.01.09 | Grant, Health and disease, Afd. for Digital Design og Informationsvidenskab, Arts

An ethical framework for the use of surveillance technology to ensure that dementia patients can retain their dignity and lead a safe life

Researchers from Aarhus University, in partnership with VIVE, Aarhus Municipality and Business Academy Aarhus, have received a grant from VELUX FONDEN for a project they call LIVSTEGN (which means “sign of life” in Danish). The project involves close collaboration between researchers, dementia patients, their families and their care staff.

2019.05.20 | Afd. for Digital Design og Informationsvidenskab

WRO 2019 Awards

Artist-Researcher Winnie Soon receives WRO 2019 Biennale Award Winnie is now exhibiting two artworks at Four Domes Pavilion in WRO Media Art Biennale, one of the leading forums for new media art in Poland and Central Europe. Her work “Unerasable Images” receives the WRO 2019 Award.

2018.11.29 | Grant

ERC funding for studying classical influences on Irish culture

Isabelle Torrance has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for studying the role of classical influences in shaping Irish culture. The project will be affiliated with The Centre for Irish Studies in Aarhus.

Events

Fri 24 Jan
14:00-15:00 | Åbogade 34, building 5342, room 333
Information meeting on the PhD program
For all applicants to the programme in ICT, MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM.
Sat 25 Jan
10:00-17:00 | Kunsthal Aarhus, J.M. Mørks Gade 13, 8000 Aarhus C
MA Curating Symposium: The Curator Has Left the Building
Wrapping up the third semester of the new MA Curating programme, students from the programme will present their investigations within the scope of Curatorial Knowledge at a public symposium at Kunsthal Aarhus.
Mon 03 Feb
14:15-16:00 | Kasernen, Langelandsgade 139, Building 1580, Room 214
Peter Bjerregaard: Exhibitions as Research
Peter Bjerregaard, editor of the Routledge anthology, Exhibitions as Research: Experimental Methods in Museums (2020), will introduce his model for knowledge-making in exhibitions, which he dubs collapsology
Fri 07 Feb
14:00-16:00 | Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus N, bugning 5510, lokale 103
Fredagsforelæsning: Introduktion til Seerundersøgelsen af Alexander P. Nielsen, TV2
Alex er Head of Audience Measurement hos TV 2 og har også tidligere arbejdet med seertal og branchemålinger internationalt hos Discovery Networks Northern Europe
Thu 20 Feb
13:00-15:00 | Aarhus
Marlene Aufgebauer: A mixed methods design within the framework of writing process research
Marlene Aufgebauer from the Department of German as a Foreign and Second Language Professor at the University of Vienna will discuss her PhD project on "Cognitive and metacognitive activities during writing processes of German as a foreign language learner."
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