ComAI at the Transforming Care Conference 2025 in Helsinki
From June 25 to 27, 2025, Sara Skardelly and Leonie Winterpacht participated in the international Transforming Care Conference at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss transformations in care and caregiving in the face of social and technological change.
In their presentation titled “Who cares? Contesting anticipations about the future of health ageing through Communicative AI”, Skardelly and Winterpacht shared findings from the ComAI sub-project “health: Caring through ComAI” (led by Juliane Jarke). The study maps current and envisioned applications of automated communication in care contexts and analyzes how health and care technology companies construct future imaginaries of AI-supported caregiving on their websites. The talk highlighted how these sociotechnical imaginaries intertwine with expectations about healthy ageing, efficiency, and human–machine interaction – all of which are central concerns of the ComAI research initiative.
30. June 2025
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ZeMKI, Center for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen
Universität Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-67620
Sekretariat (Ms. Schmidt): +49 421 218-67606
E-mail: andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de
