2024 Annual Meeting

 

Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World

 

 

 

19 – 20 September 2024

Technical University of Vienna

Favoritenstraße 11

1040 Vienna

Austria

This years’ Socio-gerontechnology Network meeting focused on a critical engagement with datafication of ageing, opening up new reflections on the quantified and datafied aspects of ageing in the light of the conference theme “Shifting Relations – Ageing in a Datafied World.”

The meeting took place on September 19^th and 20^th 2024 at the Technical University of Vienna and hosted 64 participants from 14 different nations. The meeting was organized in 12 sessions and ran in parallel sessions throughout the conference. Session themes reflected the broad engagement of the Socio-gerontechnology network with critical issues around ageing and technology, and discussed, for example, the co-constitution of ageing and artificial intelligence, the use of creative and collaborative methods in building relations between ageing and technology, and the need for questioning dominant and building alternative technofutures. The program also included a workshop, a poster session, and an exhibition on violence in old age provided by the ProSenectute Association Austria.

In addition to the main conference, this years’ network meeting also included an Early Career Researchers pre-conference event for the first time. Susan van Hees and Wendy Martin organized the event and worked with a group of 12 ECRs on the topic “Building relations in Socio-gerontechnology”. Activities included a data walk in the city of Vienna and an ECR panel where seniors in the field of Socio-gerontechnology shared their experiences and challenges as they made their way through academia.

 

The meeting was hosted by Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, the Technical University of Vienna, VICESSE Research GmbH and supported through the ALGOCARE project (funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund).