9 September 2019
Amphithéâtre – MSH Ange Guépin

President of the scientific organizing committee: Claire GAUZENTE (LEMNA-IAE, Univ. Nantes)
Scientific Organizing committee: Pascale KUNTZ (LS2N-Polytech, Univ. Nantes), Annie DUSSUET (CENS-Faculty of Sociologie, Univ. Nantes)
With the support of : DataSanté Program – Université de Nantes ; LEMNA, LS2N

During the last decade, scholarly publications dealing with “e-health” or “digitalization of health” have been exploding with a peak in 2018 (dimensions.ai, 04/2019). The technological promises to solve all sorts of challenges are more than ever attracting. Indeed, the challenges are manifold in western societies where the aging of the population is a major trend. As clearly demonstrated in the Eurostat report (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat) the share of older people continues and will continue to grow in the next decades with people older than 65 representing around 20% of the European population as of 2017, a proportion that is expected to reach around 30% in 2080. A connected phenomenon is related to the aging of older people with a share of people older than 80 reaching almost 13% of the population (in 2080). In all those analyses of the population pyramids, the proportion between men and women remains unbalanced. This raises the question of autonomy, well-being and eventually health for a large portion of our societies.

The workshop is intended to explore the different possibilities offered by technologies in relation to both IT designers/developers of those technologies and users. The literature dealing with IS design/development is generally focused on methods and processes, a critical reassessment of how systems and technologies are developed is needed in order to identify the dead angles of the literature in link with the ageing population.
Integrated investigations are needed as users will use more and more sophisticated artefacts and will interact with a myriad of people (doctors, family caregivers, professional caregivers, nurses… ), some of them being senior themselves. Related to the development of integrated approaches, the methodological dimension has also to be raised : how do we study such subtle personal and social arrangements ? And what place is left to lateral, creative, and imaginary thinking and experiencing ? Building upon the Finnish project “Smart rollator” and in discussion with different ongoing local ongoing projects (DataSanté, Maison connectée, ProFam), the objectives of this workshop will be to share and build up a coherent project that could be submitted to upcoming calls.

technological promises to solve all sorts of challenges are more than ever attracting. Indeed, the challenges are manifold in western societies where the aging of the population is a major trend. As clearly demonstrated in the Eurostat report (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat) the share of older people continues and will continue to grow in the next decades with people older than 65 representing around 20% of the European population as of 2017, a proportion that is expected to reach around 30% in 2080. A connected phenomenon is related to the aging of older people with a share of people older than 80 reaching almost 13% of the population (in 2080). In all those analyses of the population pyramids, the proportion between men and women remains unbalanced. This raises the question of autonomy, well-being and eventually health for a large portion of our societies.
The workshop is intended to explore the different possibilities offered by technologies in relation to both IT designers/developers of those technologies and users. The literature dealing with IS design/development is generally focused on methods and processes, a critical reassessment of how systems and technologies are developed is needed in order to identify the dead angles of the literature in link with the ageing population.
Integrated investigations are needed as users will use more and more sophisticated artefacts and will interact with a myriad of people (doctors, family caregivers, professional caregivers, nurses… ), some of them being senior themselves. Related to the development of integrated approaches, the methodological dimension has also to be raised : how do we study such subtle personal and social arrangements ? And what place is left to lateral, creative, and imaginary thinking and experiencing ? Building upon the Finnish project “Smart rollator” and in discussion with different ongoing local ongoing projects (DataSanté, Maison connectée, ProFam), the objectives of this workshop will be to share and build up a coherent project that could be submitted to upcoming calls.