Anathema

KBO hosted Anathema’s latest General Assembly meeting in the beautiful city of Utrecht. During the two-day meeting, on September 1-2, we looked at our project’s health and used the time for hands-on work around details to improve in the mobile app, details of the pilot studies which will be starting later this year and all […]

Anathema will be presented in two important venues. On September 19-21, we will be in Pittsburgh, USA, to take part in the 11th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) showcasing Anathema’s app in a live demonstration, as well as presenting a poster entitled ‘Older adults’ acceptability of a smartphone-based […]

Our student, Diogo Moutinho, is holding workshops with Portuguese older adults from COLABORAR to explore functionalities of Anathema, as well as customer journey aspects. These will help to inform the customer service. With the workshops, Diogo is also testing how to address taboo topics in older adult groups.

A new initiative by ILGA Portugal and FOXLife, the ABCLGBTQIA+ Project, is bringing the definition of 37 terms close to as many people as possible, so that all can be informed about aspects such as gender expression, polyamory, outing, legal sex, gender affirmation, etc. The content is so far available in Europea portuguese and in […]

KBO Partners have been interviewed for the ZonMw online magazine. Nora and Jan talk about their work in developing digital technologies and services with and for older adults. The article highlights project Anathema and how relevant it is to address current pressing needs amongst older demographics. Take a look at the full article on this […]

Cristina Mendes Santos, Co-PI of project Anathema and a senior researcher at Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, participated in a podcast by the Portuguese association of Psychologists. Cristina described project Anathema and provided examples of how digital technology can assist psychologists and patients. You can listed to it using this link (Portuguese only): https://anchor.fm/istoepsicologia/episodes/Ep-20—Os-meios-digitais-ao-servio-da-Psicologia-e1haopb

In the beginning of April 2022, we launched a value proposition survey for secondary users, which is available in English, German, Portuguese and Dutch. If you are a psychology professional, consider filling in this anonymous questionnaire which takes less than 10 minutes to complete. You will be helping us understand if Anathema has a viable […]

Anathema will come to the conference of the Design Research Society, held in Bilbao between the 28th of June and the 3rd of July. We will host a one-day, in-person, hands-on workshop where we will share with conference attendance some of the materials, methods and lessons learned during our design research process in the project. […]

Three students from the post-graduate course in Interaction Design, Web and Games at the University of Porto will be working on a design challenge launched by the Anathema project. The students will be exploring how to augment homework exercises in sexual health interventions using digital technology. The outcomes of the students’ work will be known […]

The New York Times (NYT) recently published a piece entitled “The Joy (and Challenges) of Sex After 70” by Maggie Jones, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Snippet from the NYT: “Today, Maggie Jones explores the overlooked topic of geriatric sex. Profiling older couples for whom it is still important, she considers […]