Space and Time: Helping Kids and Grandparents Feel Closer Via Design

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Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.

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Event Schedule:

6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open

7pm Lecture Starts

7.45pm Q&A

8pm Talk Concludes

8.30pm Event Closes.

*Please arrive close to 6.30pm

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Your Topic:Intergenerational relationships between young children and older relatives play an important role in in family connection and well-being. For young children, who are undergoing rapid physical and cognitive development, the support and companionship of older relatives can contribute to healthy physical and psychological development. For older relatives, intergenerational interaction can help reduce loneliness and may improve health.Designing technologies for intergenerational interaction requires approaches that can encompass the diverse cultural practices and everyday experiences that shape relationships between older adults and young children across geographical boundaries. This lecture will discuss a large project investigating tangible technologies for geographically distanced intergenerational interaction. We have so far conducted interview and co-design activities and will reveal what we have…