Biography
Chiara Garattini Ph.D. is a UCD Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Ethnography and Design at the TRIL (Technology Research for Independent Living) Centre. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the National University of Ireland – Maynooth. Dr Garattini research focuses on ageing, technology, independent living, death and chronic illnesses. Currently she is contributing at different extents to all the strands and projects within the TRIL Centre where qualitative research is employed, interacting with an array of researchers from such diverse disciplines as engineering and neuroscience. In particular, she contributes to different stages of the technology design process and has a particular research interest in gaining deeper insights in the way users (being health professionals, patients or other) understand and interact with technology. She also contributes to the deployment of these technologies in home trials, where she explores the challenges faced when technology is translated from the lab to the real world.
