We are not for profit, we are doing this because we want to make a difference and learn how people interact with technology and people.
So many people have encouraged and supported us on this journey, we are grateful to you all. If we missed your name here, we are sorry and we can add it in. We can also add a link to your own pages.
Thanks to
Project name (EN): Informal care and voluntary assistance: Innovation in service delivery in the North Sea Region
Web: http://northsearegion.eu/in-for-care
The views and images represented here do not represent those of the funder.
We are truly grateful to Sally Cameron, Stewart Beveridge from SeeScape, a leading Low-Vision Charity. They took on the collaboration started by Hazel White and the late Alan Suttie and his colleagues and clients at what was known then as the Fife Society for the Blind facilitating the original co-design and evaluation sessions.
The current development phase was generously funded by InForCare. Special thanks to Alison Duffy, Paula Forbes, Dan Gimour, Scott Burrows and Shelby Lusk.
We are grateful to all the members of the In For Care team who have helped translate the ideas from this work to a more transnational approach. It turns out that Tapology can be part of a solution to Informal Care.
https://northsearegion.eu/in-for-care
The academic work was initiated by Kenneth Scott-Brown and kindly supported by JulieHarris, Anita Simmers, Mhairi Thurston, Malath Abbas, Tom de Mayo; Ian Reynolds, Gareth Robinson, IainMitchell, Dan Gilmour, Santiago Martinez and John Isaacs.
Special thanks go to all the Abertay University Science Communicators who were drawn from the membership of Abertay University Psychology Society, in particular Pauline Mack, Kara Hill, Stephanie Walker, Ashleigh McGregor, Catherine Bain, Helen Raw, Bela Havasreti, Marilyn Smith, Lauren Thomson, Nicole Smith, Andreas Waitz-Rainey and Samantha Heeney.
Thanks also to Chris Wilson for industry referrals and to the Biome Collective development team Malath Abbas, Tom DeMajo and Gareth Robinson.
Previous work supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Prior support from further supported by the iAge Project (iAge:e-inclusion in ageing Europe; www.iageproject.eu).
The original seed project was part funded by a grant to K. Scott-Brown from Scottish Crucible, https://scottishcrucible.org.uk
Want to learn more?
We have published a paper about the original design project supported by Scottish Crucible and the iAge Interreg IV project. You can download it free from the link below. We have come a long way since then. They say shoot for the moon and you might at least hit the roof. We haven’t cured blindness but we have an idea of how we can use play to help people connect with people and keep in touch.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-07446-7_36
This above link is to a huge pdf, our chapter starts on page 389. Sorry, it only comes with all the other stuff. All good stuff so feel free to read the lot! Below is the title and citation
Tapology : a game-based platform to facilitate e-health and e-inclusion.
Scott-Brown, Kenneth; Harris, Julie; Simmers, Anita; Thurston, M.; Abbas, Malath; de Mayo, Tom; Reynolds, Ian; Robinson, Gareth; Mitchell, Iain ; Gilmour, Dan; Martinez, Santiago; Isaacs, John.
Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction Ageing and assistive environments. edited by C Stephanidis; M Antona. Vol. 8515 Springer, 2014. p. 368-377 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
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