...Quality of Life

Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, visited our IE Lab.

On the photo from left to right:
Faith Demir (IE Lab), Neeley Current (IE Lab), Joe Griffin (MissionHydroScience project), Isa Jahnke (SISLT, IE Lab), Gerhard Fischer (UC-Boulder), Marge Skubic (College of Engineering), Rose Marra (SISLT), Lorraine Phillips (School of Nursing)

Gerhard presented his research of "Quality of Life: A Transformative Framework for Human-Centered Design". Professor Fischer proposed a transformative framework to foster, nurture, and support "Quality of Life (QoL)" as one of the most challenging design problems of the digital age.

QoL is a broad concept without a precise, generally accepted definition. In design, trade-offs are universal because there are no best solutions independent of goals, objectives, and values, specifically for systemic, ill-defined, and wicked problems such as QoL. Grounded in research activities from a broad spectrum of different disciplines and an analysis from our research over the last two decades, this presentation will explore specific design trade-offs. The insights and arguments are summarized in requirements for the design of socio-technical environments to address future challenges for human-centered design grounded in a QoL perspective.