2022 - PhD: Designing for Social Engagement in Later life

Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life
PhD Researcher
RMIT University
2019 - 2023

Designing social engagement technologies with older Australians, my doctorate demonstrated how modes of interpretative flexibility can support interaction designers in co-creating with ageing communities.

☞ Thesis (2022): Designing for Social Engagement in Later Life ︎

Project - Pet Playing for Placemaking
☞ Article (2021): Tacit Learning in Serious Location-based Games ︎
☞ Presentation (2021): Placemaking with Pets around a Pandemic ︎
☞ Grant (2021): Give Where You Live Foundation

Project - Images of Social Technologies in Later Life
☞ Article (2022): Gaining Resolution when Creating Imagery of Aging ︎

Jacob Sheahan, PhD

Jacob Sheahan, PhD

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^{I acknowledge the peoples on whose lands I conduct my work, and respectfully acknowledge Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.}