Author Biography

Dr. Stefan Carmien is a staff scientist at the Tecnalia foundation. His work focuses on ubiquitous and mobile assistive technologies and context-aware systems, involving the study of the socio-technological environment, its context, and the human user and deep personal configuration (meta-design) and end-user programming (within a distributed cognition framework) as a solution to technology abandonment. He has also performed studies on image recognition and cognitive disabilities in memory and recall. He was most recently the PI for ASSISTANT, a 2.4 M € EC project supporting use of public transportation by elders with disabilities. Stefan holds a Ph.D. in computer science with a certificate in cognitive science from the University of Colorado. His Ph.D. work centered on the design of systems for active task support for people with cognitive disabilities and caregivers. He has contributed many peer-reviewed articles, six book chapters, and is the author of the book Leveraging Skills into Independent Living – Distributed Cognition and Cognitive Disability.