Newsletter
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: March 2024
This spring, highlight our new lab member/lab manager Huini Ge, LOVOT’s engagement with the community, new projects such as the Cycling Game project, and share updates from other various projects of the IDEA Lab. Give this a read!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: February 2024
What an amazing month! From completing our first data collection phase for a new project to having the last team meeting for another, February has been full of progress. In this issue, we highlight the amazing progress and milestones of various projects. Read to find out more!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: January 2024
Read our first newsletter of 2024! We’re marking the start of a new year with a new newsletter design! We’ve had an amazing month full of productivity and great feedback! This month, we also kickstarted new projects and welcomed new members!
IDEA Lab Year End 2023 Newsletter
Read New Year’s greetings from Dr. Lillian Hung and Dr. Jim Mann! We summarize the largest new milestones of the 2023 year, from three new robot studies (Aether, Lovot, Calm), our Ministry of Health presentations, CIHR Catalyst Grant and to maintained and new industry partnerships in dementia TV (Zinnia) and sleep studies (Sleepsense).
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: November/December 2023
A summary of the past two months achievements, we celebrate many new publications from a variety of projects (Telepresence, TV Study). We recognize outstanding lab members Karen and Albin, and Joey and Hiro presented lab research to the Fraser Health Authority! Other presentation conducted during this time included a lecture by Mario and Hiro to UBC Nursing students!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: October 2023
What a busy month! In this edition, we recognize our new lab manager, Bubli Chakraborty, and celebrate recent publications from WhatMatters, TV Study, an incredible amount of events and workshops hosted over our many projects, and the October conferences in Toronto over multiple projects/teams. We also had the privilege of participating in the BC Support Unit PPF Conference.
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: September 2023
In this month’s edition, we celebrated the attention the Lovot Robot project received from CBC, Fairchild TV and CTV, highlighted hardworking lab members Karen Wong and Jason Fu, and new publications from TV Study and Learning Health Systems!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: August 2023
In this month’s edition, we highlight our WorkLearn students, celebrate the completion of our first EDII Weaving Relations course as a lab, and acknowledge some project updates: Lovot’s robots visited the Nikkei Home in Mount Pleasant and South Vancouver Neighbourhood Home, and more!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: July 2023
In this month’s edition, we had lots to celebrate including our lab’s showcase including the Dementia-friendly Cafe, Knowledge exchange webinar, Joey’s first first-authored publication and so much more!!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: June 2023
In this month’s edition, we had lots to celebrate including our lab’s showcase in the Pinoy Festival, international knowledge exchange in Asia, our award-winning projects and so much more!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: May 2023
Our knowledge translation Team is excited to present our May Newsletter! This month, we had lots to celebrate including Karen’s award winning publication, Mother’s Day Celebration, Design for People(DFP) project and so much more!
Newsletter Archive
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: April 2023
In this month’s edition, we have featured several publications, a new lab member and a recap of CGNA 2023! You can also read more about our new project- Virtual Team Based Care, that will be led by Ian Chan.
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: March 2023
In this month’s edition, we had tons to celebrate including three new publications! This edition is also interactive and includes both videos and links to our papers. Scroll to the very bottom to access the links!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: February 2023
With the beginning of March comes our February Newsletter. This edition features updates from all of our ongoing projects including Learning Health Systems- a new community based project led by Margaret Lin!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: January 2023
Check out our first newsletter of 2023! It features updates from all of our projects- notably our new Dementia Friends Initiative led by Mario and Joey!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: Holiday Edition 2022
Check out our holiday edition, which includes an interactive video that can be accessed at the bottom of the page! We once again had so much to celebrate this month including Dr. Jim Mann receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and Dr. Lillian Hung receiving the 2022 Richmond Research Impact Award!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: October 2022
In this month’s edition, we had so much to celebrate including award recipient- Karen Wong and Dr. Lillian Hung whose studies were featured by WHO as a COVID-19 resource!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: September 2022
The KT Team is so excited to present you with the September Edition of our newsletter! This edition is once again interactive, with links to our presentations from the socio-gerontechnology conference found on page 4. Scroll to the very bottom to access the links!
IDEA Lab Monthly Newsletter: August 2022
This month our team has worked hard to create two versions of our newsletter; a hard copy that will be mailed to patient and family partners, as well as an interactive soft copy that will be emailed to all subscribers. The interactive copy will facilitate video watching, allowing you to enjoy the full experience! As always, this edition will include project updates and highlight some exciting events that took place in August! We hope you enjoy this issue as much as we do!
