Invitation of the United Nations Department “Economic and Social Affairs” to participate in expert discussion

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller will take part in the virtual expert exchange on the topic “Socially just transition towards sustainable development: The role of digital technologies on social development and well-being of all” from August 4 to 8, 2020, at the invitation of Daniela Bas, Director of the Division for Inclusive Social Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. She represents the topics “Ageing & Digitisation” as deputy chairperson of the 8th Ageing Report Commission of the Federal Government as well as “Participation-oriented and sustainable technology design”.

Publication Prize of the DGA

Richard Paluch, research associate in the research area of Business Informatics, in particular IT for the Aging Society, was selected by the German Society of Audiology (DGA) for the Publication Prize 2019. He will be awarded the prize during the online conference on September 3, 2020.

Call for tender for various final/project work within the IDES KMU project

The assistant professorship “Business Informatics, esp. IT for the aging society” offers a range of new topics for project and final theses.

The different topics revolve around the topic of “accessibility” in the context of IT workplaces and include field studies and technical (further) developments of supporting tools.

You will find all advertised topics on the website of the assistant professorship “Business Informatics, esp. IT for the aging society“.

If you have your own topic ideas, please let us know your suggestions.

Info: https://italg.wineme.uni-siegen.de/en/abschlussarbeiten/

Contact for project and thesis work around barrier-free IT and barrier-free IT workplaces:

Sven Bittenbinder

Room: US-E 117 (Campus Unteres Schloss)
 Phone: 0271 740-4470
 Mail: sven.bittenbinder@uni-siegen.de

Call for proposals for the Master’s thesis – Participatory website design for a caring community project in Switzerland

Our Collaborative Research Center Cooperative Production of User Autonomy in the Context of the Ageing Society is writing a master thesis with the title:

Collaborative and participatory design of media of cooperation for caring communities – Participatory website design for caring community project in Switzerland

The existing cooperation of the Junior Professorship IT for the Ageing Society at the University of Siegen with the research group Ageing at home of the Careum Hochschule Gesundheit (Zurich, Switzerland) offers the opportunity to write a final thesis on the participatory design of a project website within the framework of subproject A05 – Cooperative Production of User Autonomy in the Context of the Ageing Society of the SFB Media of the cooperation.

The final thesis will be carried out in cooperation with the Swiss project CareComLabs, which has already established 3 Living Labs in Switzerland. The participatory approach is central here. Together with actors of the emerging caring communities, their internet presence will be designed. In addition to the design of the website, the conception, implementation and reflection of the participatory design process are also part of the final thesis.

Click here for the announcement of the Master’s thesis – Participative Website Design for Caring Community Project in Switzerland