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This meetup will take place online via Zoom (starting 6.30pm).
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This meetup will take place online via Zoom, starting at 6.30pm.
If you're new to the group and/or would like to meet up for some chat beforehand I'll be around from 6pm onwards. Please feel free to drop in and say hello.
This month we welcome Anne Dhir, who will be talking to us about what happens when service design, data analytics and policy making come together to deliver social impact. Anne is a project director at Snook. She is an enabler with a passion for empowering people to achieve their ambitions. By nurturing new skills, fostering access to new technology, breaking down barriers, managing projects and just making things happen, she is on a mission to translate 'specialist speak' into clear messages accessible to all.
Free school meals, data and service design
With support from the Scottish Government and the Social Innovation Partnership, North Lanarkshire Council worked with Snook to trial this novel approach to make reach the thousands of pupils who are entitled to free school meals but aren't registered. How do we bring services to people instead of waiting for them to apply? What are the constraints about licences, ethics and consent? How departments and organisations need to work together?
About Anne
Coming from a background in business, Anne aims to get to the bottom of problems, unearth their impact throughout the organisation, design innovative solutions and follow them through until implementation and evaluation. She works in the private, public and third sectors.
This meetup will take place online via Zoom, starting at 6.30pm.
If you're new to the group and/or would like to meet up for some chat beforehand I'll be around from 6pm onwards. Please feel free to drop in and say hello.
This month we welcome not just one, but TWO fantastic speakers.
Anne Dhir is Head of Strategy at Snook. Anne will be talking to us about what happens when service design, data analytics and policy making come together to deliver social impact.
Angus Addlesee is a PhD researcher, working to adapt voice assistants to be more accessible for people with dementia. He will talk about this project and many of the other interesting projects that will be presented at the upcoming European Chatbot and Conversational Summit.
Free school meals, data and service design (Anne Dhir)
With support from the Scottish Government and the Social Innovation Partnership, North Lanarkshire Council worked with Snook to trial this novel approach to make reach the thousands of pupils who are entitled to free school meals but aren't registered. How do we bring services to people instead of waiting for them to apply? What are the constraints about licences, ethics and consent? How departments and organisations need to work together?
Agenda
6pm - Optional pre-meetup informal chat
6.30pm - Intro & Community Announcements
6.45pm - Breakout chat
7pm - Adapting voice assistants to be more accessible for people with dementia
7.30pm - Free school meals, data and service design
Join our Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-iqbidsmd-saRy_oW2BG9SrLosLZkDtg
This meetup will take place online via Zoom, starting at 6.30pm.
If you're new to the group and/or would like to meet up for some chat beforehand I'll be around from 6pm onwards. Please feel free to drop in and say hello.
This month we welcome not just one, but TWO fantastic speakers.
Anne Dhir is Head of Strategy at Snook. Anne will be talking to us about what happens when service design, data analytics and policy making come together to deliver social impact.
Angus Addlesee is a PhD researcher, working to adapt voice assistants to be more accessible for people with dementia. He will talk about this project and many of the other interesting projects that will be presented at the upcoming European Chatbot and Conversational Summit.
Free school meals, data and service design (Anne Dhir)
With support from the Scottish Government and the Social Innovation Partnership, North Lanarkshire Council worked with Snook to trial this novel approach to make reach the thousands of pupils who are entitled to free school meals but aren't registered. How do we bring services to people instead of waiting for them to apply? What are the constraints about licences, ethics and consent? How departments and organisations need to work together?
Adapting voice assistants to be more accessible for people with dementia (Angus Addlesee)
As Scotland's population ages and carers face increasing pressures, Angus hopes to help people live in their own homes longer and more independently by adapting voice assistants. But - how can (relatively) small groups of vulnerable people be given due consideration while using data-driven methods? With help so far from Alzheimer Scotland, the Centre for Dementia Prevention, Edinburgh Medical School, the NHS, Wallscope, and The Data Lab - this project is well underway...
Agenda
6pm - Optional pre-meetup informal chat
6.30pm - Intro & Community Announcements
6.45pm - Breakout chat
7pm - Adapting voice assistants to be more accessible for people with dementia
7.30pm - Free school meals, data and service design
Join our Slack group and become part of the online Edinburgh UX community!
https://join.slack.com/t/ux-edinburgh/shared_invite/zt-iqbidsmd-saRy_oW2BG9SrLosLZkDtg
