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And my slides are on SlideShare.net https://www.slideshare.net/isaja

On the photo: Julia Liebscher (right), Isa Jahnke (left), the sign says, "Theoretically, I can do practically anything"

Gerhard Fischer (Univ of Colorado, USA), Thomas Herrmann (Univ of Bochum, Germany) and Volker Wulf (Univ of Siegen, Germany) invited researchers to discuss Grand Challenges of the digital age:

"There is an increasing demand to develop innovations in eldercare technologies that can be delivered as 'Apps' at a cloud-scale to facilitate proactive monitoring and targeted care coordination. This article presents the design for an 'ElderCare-as-a-SmartService' (ECaaS) system that integrates Apps for in-home health monitoring, and remote...

"The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable." - Donald Norman

Our research shows the challenges of 1:1 tablet classrooms in Sweden. When schools started to implement the tablet, some teachers used this opportunity to shifting the power to students. Students get more control over their own learning process.

Our research of tablets in schools (Denmark, Sweden, Finland) is now available with open access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2017.05.006

Congratulations to my former PhD students from my time in Umeå and beyond. We walked together for a while, up and down the research road, and it was a wonderful journey. :-)