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Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, UPF
The human side of technologieshttp://gti.upf.edu
Research activities with and for Àgora – La Verneda Adult School
davinia.hernandez@upf.edu
http://gti.upf.eduGTI
People & research lines
- Interactive technologies for Learning
- Interactive technologies and the elderly
- Interactive technologies for children
- Visualization
- Graphics
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Àgora is a non-profit making association of adults who do not have any academic degree.
Àgora was created in 1986 as the results of the neighbourhood claims about the lack of basic services in the district.
It is dedicated to the non-formal training of lifelong learners, especially those who are socially excluded
Àgora has two aims:
To offer a wide range of educative and cultural activities to people without academic degree
To promote the managing ability and initiative of adults
http://www.edaverneda.org/edaverneda/
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1.600 participant people:• Adults without academic degree• Teenagers and young adults who have experienced school
failure• Immigrants• People with special learning needs
150 volunteer people People from the neighbourhood to University lecturers.
7 hired staff
Opened 7 days a week, from 9am to 10pm
111 training groups
460 weekly hours of activities.
All activities are for free!!
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Activities ICT and Media literacy, dialogical literary gatherings
Speaking Spanish and Catalan
Languages: English, French, Arab, German, etc.
Workshops: artistic, music, dancing, sport activities, etc.
…
Democratic participation
Everyone who participates in Agora is involved in egalitarian conditions and has the opportunity to participate in the decision-making spaces without exclusion. (Eg. Mixed commissions, centre council, etc.)
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The GTI has been collaborating with Àgora for about 10 years
European and national research projects APADIS, TENCompetence, Life2.0, WorthPlay, METIS…
PhD Thesis- Sergio Sayago (completed in 2009)
- Valeria Righi, Susan Ferreira (ongoing)
Bachelor’s Final Projects Long list! Over 20 …
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Some of our recent activities…
with and for
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Design collaborative services for active ageing
Beyond Àgora community – involving public bodies, neighbhoord associations, local businesses
Design, develop and evaluate a platform for worth playing online games created by older people
Over 30 games created on several different topics (Bernat Metge, neighborhood memories, geography, maths…)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w29vfCZOJ0
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Understand and design IT-based service for communities of older people
Long term ethnographical study (over 4 years)
Participatory observations during weekly meetings while participants (learn to) use technologies in groups
Participatory design approach
Online (e.g. Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter) and offline communities
Understanding sustainability and appropriation of developed technologies
over long time
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Older people as active creators of online videos: challenges and opportunities for web accessibility
• Understanding how older people use online video portals: everyday use and accessibility barriers.
• User-centered research 3 years ethnography study
• Online video portals mediated
communication• Older people creating video
content• Fostering digital and social
inclusion• Design recommendations
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http://ilde.upf.edu/about/
Supporting collaborative design / creation and sharing of activities for learning in Àgora
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• Activities with schools:– E.g., http://gti.upf.edu/questinsitu-the-game-mnac/
• Activities with NGOs: – MSF, http://ilde.upf.edu/about/
• More activities by other ESUP professors / research groups at the DTIC:– http://www.upf.edu/dtic/recerca/arees_recerca.html
Other activities impacting society…
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Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, UPF
El lado humano de las tecnologíashttp://gti.upf.edu
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