Many thanks to all of those who took part in this year’s conference, which took place in Sheffield 3rd – 5th July 2013. Over three days, 141 delegates (representing 19 countries) attended\u00a07 keynote presentations<\/a>, 77 papers, a peer-reviewed\u00a0Exhibition<\/a>, 1 workshop, 1 tutorial, 2 drinks receptions and a memorable evening at MAGNA Science and Adventure Park – and that’s not even including all the\u00a0activities\u00a0during the earlier part of the week in the\u00a024 Hour Design Challenge!<\/a>\u00a0I’ll be posting photos from the Challenge and Conference on this website but please send in any pictures you took as well.<\/p>\n I would like to thank all our sponsors and supporters who helped make\u00a0Design4Health<\/strong>\u00a0happen:<\/p>\n The Health Foundation<\/strong>,\u00a0Creative Sheffield<\/strong>,\u00a0KTEqual<\/strong>,\u00a0Devices4Dignity<\/strong>,\u00a0User-Centred Health<\/strong>\u00a0Care Design<\/strong>,\u00a0Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research<\/strong>\u00a0and Care for South Yorkshire<\/strong>, \u00a0and the\u00a0Healthcare Technology Hub<\/strong>,\u00a0Art & Design Research Centre<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Faculty of Health & Wellbeing<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0Sheffield Hallam University.<\/strong><\/p>\n My particular thanks also go to our excellent team of\u00a0stewards<\/strong>, who helped make things run smoothly and did a fantastic job at the conference. They were:<\/p>\n Katharina Bandman, Matthew Coombes, Meera Rajan, Rowell Heria, Zakera Kali, Nancy Hughes and Julie Turnbull.<\/p>\n If you would like any of the other\u00a0paper presentations<\/strong>\u00a0that you saw at the conference, please contact the speakers direct; the\u00a0D4H13 Delegates List<\/a>\u00a0is now available to print.<\/p>\n For those of you who weren\u2019t at the prize giving, the\u00a0Best Paper Presentation Awards<\/strong>, as voted for by conference delegates, went to:<\/p>\n 1st<\/sup>\u00a0Place (\u00a3250)<\/strong><\/p>\n Alessia Cadamuro<\/strong>\u00a0from Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) for her paper “Alzheimer – What remains?”<\/p>\n Joint 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Place (\u00a3125 each)<\/strong><\/p>\n Rita Maldonado Branco, from Central Saint Martins School of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London, UK, for her paper “How can Communication Design add value in the context of Alzheimer’s Disease?”<\/p>\n and<\/p>\n Alison Thomson<\/strong>\u00a0from Queen Mary, University of London for her presentation of the paper “Multiple sclerosis (MS) Outpatient Future Groups: Designing tools of interaction in health service improvement activities”, authored by Alison Thomson1<\/sup>, Carol Rivas1<\/sup>, Tosh Denholm2<\/sup>, Gavin Giovannoni1 (<\/sup>1<\/sup>Queen Mary, University of London;\u00a02<\/sup>Barts Health NHS Trust, UK)<\/p>\n Best Exhibit<\/strong>\u00a0in the Design4Health2013 Exhibition (\u00a3250), judged by a cross-discipline\u00a0panel, went to Joe Langley and team for the ‘Head Up’ project.<\/p>\n Congratulations to all the winners on some excellent presentations!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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