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Dr. Jennifer Boger recently presented her invited paper on ethical technology development at the PETRA conference in Corfu, Greece! "Culture Change, Human-Centered Design, and Ethical by Design as Transactional Cornerstone Concepts in the Development of Technology for Supporting Aging" provides a overview of key ideas that can underpin a fundamental shift in the way ethical technology is designed and developed.

So incredibly proud of our collaboration to create our new guide "Designing to Include Dementia & Personhood: A

Delighted to share our latest JMIR publication - "Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for Persons Living With Dementia: User-Centered Design Study as a Multistakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic"! So proud of this unique example of co-design work, which done by a brilliant and dedicated team of researchers, exercise professionals, and older adults.

Dr. Jennifer Boger was honoured to be an invited panellist of the "Using AI To Establish Sustainably Trustworthy And Responsible Research And Innovation" session at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2021). This internationally renowned conference brings together thought leaders in the theory and applications of computational intelligence that underpin innovation and development in the field of AI.

So proud of our own Karan Shastri for leading our new publication "Working towards inclusion: Creating technology for and with people living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia who are employed", which outlines participatory design for inclusion of people living with mild cognitive impairment / early onset dementia (MCI/EOD) in technology development!!

So proud of the terrific research by Jing Wei on "Sleep Detection for Younger Adults, Healthy Older Adults, and Older Adults Living With Dementia Using Wrist Temperature and Actigraphy: Prototype Testing and Case Study Analysis" that has just been published in JMIR!

Hot off the press!! Our paper on FASTER - a new approach to generating evidence for rehabilitation technology - has just been published! Have a read at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000399932100366X

Excited our interview on “Ethical questions around neural implant technology” aired on CBC’s The Current with Matt Galloway this morning! https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63/clip/15849001

Our newest paper detailing ITWIL's Ahmed Malik's MASc thesis work on the creation of a Zero-Effort Ambient Heart Rate Monitoring Using Ballistocardiography Detected Through a Seat Cushion has just been published in JMIR Rehabilitation and A

Are you over the age of 60 and interested in virtual reality? We are looking for participants in our newest research that is exploring the use of virtual reality games to support exercise at home.