Memories at your fingertips: How technology can improve care
Robin van Otterdijk |
TEDxBreda
• October 2019
There is an ongoing discussion about how technology nowadays has isolated humans instead of bringing them together. Robin has found a way to make technology help us to get to know people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Robin is a User Experience / User Interface Designer who got the inspiration of his idea from his grandfather (who actually won an Olympic silver medal in 1964!) and who suffers from this degenerative disease, which is affecting more than 200,000 people just in the Netherlands. Robin shares in his TEDx talk how technology in care is not necessarily cold or distant, depending on how it is used, it can also help us to connect. With his curious mind, Robin is always trying to find solutions for existing problems.
Robin Otterdijk is a User Experience Designer from Eindhoven. He is always looking around for new solutions for existing problems and problems that he didn’t even know existed. Seeing creativity around him is a big inspiration for him, to help him find solutions in his work for customers and personal projects. He is intrigued by simple solutions to complicated problems/situations. His talk is based on how he dealt with his grandfather getting Alzheimer’s disease and how technology helped connecting with him again.