Thrive in Time: Techniques and Technologies (for Us All) to Age Successfully
Date and time: 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:00 CEST
Speaker: William Jones, University of Washington
Title: Thrive in Time: Techniques and Technologies (for Us All) to Age Successfully
Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campus OR Zoom
Directions: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/
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Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/69560887455
Host: Olof Bälter
Abstract: In the normal course of ageing, we experience a gradual decline in raw cognitive ability as measured, for example, by tests of short-term working memory capacity and processing speed. However, a growing body of research provides intriguing, suggestive indicators that we might compensate for and counter declines in raw cognitive ability through methods that better leverage both information “out there” and our accumulated knowledge “in the head.” Ideally, methods combine so that age declines are minimal and we remain active, engaged and self-reliant until the very end of our biological lives. What can be done to manage our information and, indirectly, our knowledge to come closer to this ideal of ageing?
Bio: William Jones is a Research Associate Professor Emeritus in the Information School at the University of Washington. He continues to work on the challenges of “Keeping Found Things Found” both as a research topic and in his own life. He is recently interested in the relationships between information, knowledge and successful aging. William has published in the areas of personal information management (PIM), human-computer interaction, information retrieval (search), and human cognition/memory. He wrote the book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management and, more recently, the three-part series, on the The Future of Personal Information. He is lead editor on a book scheduled for publication in 2025 by Cambridge Press with working title, Thrive in Time: How Techniques and Technologies Can Help Us (All) to Age Successfully.