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Hello all!

Do you sometimes feel that this world is not built for you?

Please see below an invitation to take part on the doctoral course on “Designing for diversity and inclusion”.

About the course

Our world is designed under the assumption that there is an average user, customer, patient, or student. This leaves most of us struggling dealing with average buildings, services and products that fit no one. This concept of “average” does not need to be carried over to digital environments like websites, apps or online solutions. Looking at and through our past mistakes, we can learn how can we design a digital society to be more accessible and more aware of its inaccessibility, recognizing and addressesing it gradually.

Diversity is not just about disability! It includes gender, language, culture, and our physical and mental abilities that can vary from person to person or even from day to day in the same person.

This 1 ECTS credits course (27 hours of in and off class work) will help you:

• Understand and apply the basics of the design process based on Human-computer interaction and interaction design fields in relation to Person-Centric Healthcare.
• Understand and reflect on basic concepts of inclusive design, e.g. ways people are diverse, preconceptions, discrimination, exclusion, and consequences of exclusion in design in the physical and digitalized world – e.g., discrimination by AI
• Recognize inclusive designs and the difference to universal design.
• Understand and reflect on inclusive design as an inherent part of the design process - instead of a good to have feature.
• Get familiar with, reflect on, and apply methods that increase empathy in design toward people different from the designer
• Reflect on the limitations of the methods
• Apply them in the design context of the digital technology
• Experience how it is to design for people’s diversity.

Who can participate?

The course is intended for the doctoral level, however Master’s students who are interested in the topic are also welcome to participate. Maximum 20 people.

Registration here: https://forms.office.com/r/9Ag8nV84gd

Acceptance to the course will take place on a first come first serve basis.

When and where?

22 – 23/09/2022 from 9 to 14hs. at the Galaxy Room in Tellus, Linnanmaa.

About the lecturer

Vasiliki Mylonopoulou (Vaso) is a Marie Skłodowska Curie alumnus. She has worked on designing social features in technology supporting health behaviour change. Since 2019, she is working at the university of Gothenburg in the division of Human-Computer Interaction. Currently she is a senior lecturer and teaches interaction design focused on health and wellbeing from the perspective of diversity. Her research has turn toward health knowledge dissemination, and attitude change specifically toward invisible conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, or mental health issues. More about Vasiliki you can find at https://www.vasilikimylo.com/

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Guido Giunti MD PhD

Adjunct Professor of Digital Health Design and Development

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Alumnus

Pronouns: he/him/his

University of Oulu, Finland

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