Centre for Social Informatics

Members of the Centre for the Social Informatics (CSI), Vesna Dolničar, PhD, Andraž Petrovčič, PhD, Tomaž Burnik and Mojca Šetinc are authors of the new scientific article published in International Journal of Rehabilitation Research. In the article, authors presented the results of the randomized crossover experiment involving 50 older smartphone users, aged 60 years and above which was guided by the principles of summative usability testing.

Representatives of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Vesna Dolničar, PhD, Mojca Šetinc and Tomaž Burnik, as well as Vika Pušnik, representative of International Research office, participated at the kick-off meeting of the Interreg V-A Slovenia-Austria project COOP4HEALTHCARE (Cross-sectoral Alliances for Smart Healthcare Solutions), which took place in Pinkafeld (Austria) on July 18.

In July 2018, the members of the Centre for the Social Informatics (CSI) at the University of Ljubljana (UL), Faculty of Social Sciences, started the implementation of the basic project entitled "Using paradata to evaluate response quality in web surveys", which is co-financed by the Slovenian Research Agency. The leader of the basic project, which will last three years, is Vasja Vehovar, PhD.

The applied project Understanding and analysis of users' needs for the development of e-services for integrated social and health care in the aging society that addresses current Slovenian and EU policy agenda for ICTs, active ageing, social care and healthcare was launched on July 1st 2018. Its lead partner is the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (UL FSS CSI). Other project partners are: University Medical Centre Ljubljana and Telekom Slovenije. Project is funded by the Slovenian Research Agency and Telekom Slovenije.

A new paper from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) published in the Telecommunications Policy journal has found that at least two types of barriers are of significant importance for understanding engagement of internet non-user in proxy internet use.

On 3rd and 4th of July the fifth of nine Exchange of Experience and Peer Evaluation (EEPE) events took place in Stuttgart, Germany (state Baden-Württemberg). EEPE was attended by Mojca Šetinc from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI), and three representatives of the stakeholders – Amalija Šiftar from Slovene Federation of Pensioners’ Associations, Mateja Nagode from Social Protection Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, and Dalibor Gavrić from Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia.