Papers by Gareth Priday
Subverting the Narrative: Alternate Technology Approaches for Active Ageing
PubMed, Mar 2, 2020
This chapter presents two case studies where the dominant narrative was subverted, one by citizen... more This chapter presents two case studies where the dominant narrative was subverted, one by citizen participants and one by researchers. Subversion, as a questioning and challenging stance, in the context of co-creation supports the discovery of new pathways for healthy behaviours even in modest projects. We also illustrate how emotion-led and interest-based design is used to increase adoption by end-users. Here we explore the development of an active ageing portal for a local council and the use of 'Kira' the robot to promote social interaction between older adults living with dementia.
Tracking Person-Centred Care Experiences Alongside Other Success Measures in Hearing Rehabilitation
Springer eBooks, Sep 27, 2022
Tools for Alternative Temporalities
Staying active later in life is considered important for our health. Government bodies create pro... more Staying active later in life is considered important for our health. Government bodies create programs encouraging seniors to remain active and independent for maintaining quality of life. Typically, councils engage design studios to design active ageing programs where the designer/client interaction is paramount. Interest in co-designing with rather than for end-users is growing, yet some claim it takes too long or does not lead to the desired results. This is also a challenge when included in a one semester university course for design students. This study aimed to find out what happens when taking the time to co-design. Strategies were co-created across two cases with two local councils briefing the students on 1) personalized active ageing plans and 2) navigating the aged care system. Three co-design workshops were held with 22 seniors and 26 Master of Design students from an Australian university, over 12 weeks with time for design, analysis and reflection. The findings show mutual surprise from the design students and the older adults as they share stories from their own perspectives. First, the design students reflected on how time needs to be negotiated in codesign when older adults enjoy taking their time and chat and young designers are under time pressure. Second, the design students were surprised that is was these unplanned conversations that led to design ideas. The older adults were surprised at the effort invested in the co-design activities for them and how thought provoking and fun the activities were. We argue co-designing independent ageing solutions with designers and seniors is indeed a good investment of time. We conclude that also allowing the space for storytelling, and reflection, leads to empathy and mutual learning for young designers to understand older adults and for robust design responses to emerge.
The Open Futures Library: One Step toward a Global Foresight Commons
Journal of Futures Studies, Jun 1, 2014
Co-creation is a method of development that engages learners, encourages creativity and yields co... more Co-creation is a method of development that engages learners, encourages creativity and yields concrete results. The goal of the research process described in this article was to examine public health nursing students' experiences of co-creation in well-being and health promotion during a course. Laurea's Strategy 2030 emphasises a student-centric approach. The student is seen as an active developer, building their own competence based on the needs of the labour market. A particular focus of public health nurse education is the promotion of well-being and health. According to Laurea's Learning by Developing model, partners from the world of work are always involved in the learning. The course described in this article involved several institutions of well-being and health promotion from the Vantaa region. The course was carried out as part of Laurea's Co-creation Orchestration project, which aimed to enable the development of well-being and health services using the methods of co-creation. CO-CREATION AS A PEDAGOGICAL METHOD Co-creation means interactive, creative, goal-driven work based on equality among participants. Different education and experience backgrounds are seen as an asset among co-creation participants. Professional roles and positions in the organisation are secondary and everyone's contribution is seen as equally valuable. Diversity among participants brings different perspectives to the development, which can be used in the creation of new understanding and knowledge in a goal-driven way. (Bovill 2011, Pöyry-Lassila 2017.) Temple Clothier and Matheson (2019) describe co-creation as a pedagogical method. According to them, co-creation builds creative meaning that improves motivation. The concrete goals of co-creation and the close cooperation with other learners maintain motivation throughout the learning process. Even though students
Tracking Person-Centred Care Experiences Alongside Other Success Measures in Hearing Rehabilitation
Intelligent systems reference library, Sep 27, 2022
Co-creation is a method of development that engages learners, encourages creativity and yields co... more Co-creation is a method of development that engages learners, encourages creativity and yields concrete results. The goal of the research process described in this article was to examine public health nursing students' experiences of co-creation in well-being and health promotion during a course. Laurea's Strategy 2030 emphasises a student-centric approach. The student is seen as an active developer, building their own competence based on the needs of the labour market. A particular focus of public health nurse education is the promotion of well-being and health. According to Laurea's Learning by Developing model, partners from the world of work are always involved in the learning. The course described in this article involved several institutions of well-being and health promotion from the Vantaa region. The course was carried out as part of Laurea's Co-creation Orchestration project, which aimed to enable the development of well-being and health services using the methods of co-creation. CO-CREATION AS A PEDAGOGICAL METHOD Co-creation means interactive, creative, goal-driven work based on equality among participants. Different education and experience backgrounds are seen as an asset among co-creation participants. Professional roles and positions in the organisation are secondary and everyone's contribution is seen as equally valuable. Diversity among participants brings different perspectives to the development, which can be used in the creation of new understanding and knowledge in a goal-driven way. (Bovill 2011, Pöyry-Lassila 2017.) Temple Clothier and Matheson (2019) describe co-creation as a pedagogical method. According to them, co-creation builds creative meaning that improves motivation. The concrete goals of co-creation and the close cooperation with other learners maintain motivation throughout the learning process. Even though students
Tools for Alternative Temporalities
Climate Change and Museum Futures, 2014
Living Labs approaches emphasise the importance of real life contexts in public spaces and servic... more Living Labs approaches emphasise the importance of real life contexts in public spaces and service provision as an integral design component of the physical space including technological interactions. We report on the findings and outcomes of a Living Lab Project - the Waiting Room of the Future Project. This research focuses on a waiting room redesign for Access Health and Community, a partner of the Future Self and Design Living Lab both located in Melbourne, Australia. Waiting rooms are an example of a public space where the physical design is an integral part of the service provision. The emotions of staff and patients have a significant impact on service perception and a direct impact on overall patient satisfaction. Previous studies concerning healthcare waiting rooms provide little emphasis on current and desired emotional responses of stakeholders (e.g. staff, patients, and clinicians). This research focuses on patients' emotions and communication as an integral componen...
131 The Open Futures Library: One Step Toward a Global Foresight Commons
This report introduces the Open Futures Library, outlines our hopes for its future development an... more This report introduces the Open Futures Library, outlines our hopes for its future development and invites you to join us and help shape this community resource. The Open Futures Library can be found at
Deepening user involvement through living labs
Proceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2017
Over the last ten years there has been a development of the concept of living labs as quadruple h... more Over the last ten years there has been a development of the concept of living labs as quadruple helix innovation platforms, many with strong emphasis on ICT solutions in a variety of settings. In Europe, there has been some exploration of living labs in conjunction with HCI/UX approaches. In Australia, living labs are at an early stage of development. This paper reviews the state of development and intersection of living labs and HCI/UX approaches and the opportunities for living labs for practitioners in the Australian context.
The Open Futures Library: One Step toward a Global Foresight Commons
Subverting the Narrative: Alternate Technology Approaches for Active Ageing
This chapter presents two case studies where the dominant narrative was subverted, one by citizen... more This chapter presents two case studies where the dominant narrative was subverted, one by citizen participants and one by researchers. Subversion, as a questioning and challenging stance, in the context of co-creation supports the discovery of new pathways for healthy behaviours even in modest projects. We also illustrate how emotion-led and interest-based design is used to increase adoption by end-users. Here we explore the development of an active ageing portal for a local council and the use of 'Kira' the robot to promote social interaction between older adults living with dementia.
Co-designing time to chat, to reflect, to get it right: young designers learn from older adults co-creating toolkits for peer-to-peer information sessions
Technology Innovation Management Review
Technology Innovation Management Review, Feb 23, 2017
Climate change, museum futures, 2014
Anthropogenic climate change implies the emergence of human beings as global geological agents. S... more Anthropogenic climate change implies the emergence of human beings as global geological agents. Such an imaginary sets up conflicts between the disciplines of human and natural history – for the first time since the Enlightenment – with respect to their respective and differing conceptions of temporality, methodologies, and conceptions of the human and humanity. These kinds of radical, cross-perspectival encounters and contending frames of time are typical of conversations in our discipline of Foresight or Futures Studies. As museums seek to face the challenges of " speaking " into the public discourse around climate change, learning ways to foster these encounters and work with different kinds of temporality and other background assumptions seems crucial. The chapter suggests a natural alliance between the museum profession and futures thinking.
Journal of Futures Studies, 2013
"The advent of the network form has ushered in new practices and possibilities for participation ... more "The advent of the network form has ushered in new practices and possibilities for participation and collaboration based on emerging on-line technologies. It is no surprise that new approaches to futures / foresight research and engagement are being developed in the context of these technologies and emerging practices. In dwelling within this juxtaposition between participatory futures and the maturing network era, we ask what the implications are for foresight / futures studies, and how this can help us re-imagine Anticipatory Democracy in the 21st century. A developmental narrative for the emergence of the network form in futures studies provides context for our understanding of new pathways. Within this we identify key emerging issues with implications for Anticipatory Democracy: instantiation, replication, openness and control. Explicated, these emerging issues provide a rich picture of the challenges and possibilities for building Anticipatory Democracy in the network era."
Future Studies by Gareth Priday
Journal of Futures Studies, Jan 1, 2012
The advent of the network form has ushered in new practices and possibilities for participation a... more The advent of the network form has ushered in new practices and possibilities for participation and collaboration based on emerging on-line technologies. It is no surprise that new approaches to futures / foresight research and engagement are being developed in the context of these technologies and emerging practices. In dwelling within this juxtaposition between participatory futures and the maturing network era, we ask what the implications are for foresight / futures studies, and how this can help us re-imagine Anticipatory Democracy in the 21 st century. A developmental narrative for the emergence of the network form in futures studies provides context for our understanding of new pathways. Within this we identify key emerging issues with implications for Anticipatory Democracy: instantiation, replication, openness and control. Explicated, these emerging issues provide a rich picture of the challenges and possibilities for building Anticipatory Democracy in the network era.