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At the Research Day of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, held on Wednesday, 27 May, Simona Hvalič Touzery, PhD, from the Centre for Social Informatics presented the centre’s research work on social robots in healthcare and long-term care of older adults.

The Faculty of Social Sciences will participate in a new Interreg Central Europe project entitled HealthBridgeCE – Bridging Digital Health Solutions Across Central Europe. The project will be led by Simona Hvalič Touzery, PhD, from the Centre for Social Informatics.

The article, “Pre-use acceptability of telemedicine among nursing students: a quantitative cross-sectional study”, was authored by CSI members Simona Hvalič-Touzery, PhD, Jerneja Laznik, Mojca Šetinc and Vesna Dolničar, PhD, in collaboration with Angela Kydd, PhD and Nejc Berzelak, PhD.

Dr. Jošt Bartol, Laura Fatur, and Dr. Andraž Petrovčič have published an original research article titled “Perceived Corporate and Peer Surveillance on the Internet: Scale Development and Validation”.

The chapter was authored by Lea Lebar, PhD, Vesna Dolničar, PhD, and Simona Hvalič-Touzery, PhD, from the Centre for Social Informatics and Mateja Nagode, MSc, from the Directorate for Older People, Long-Term Care and Deinstitutionalisation at the Ministry for a Solidary Future.

The 2nd Survey Methodology Summer School 2026 jointly organised by the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) and the Centre for Social Informatics will take place in July 2026 at the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Izidor Natek, dr. Vesna Dolničar and dr. Simona Hvalič Touzery have published an original scientific article titled “Perceptions of Telecare and Care Burden Among Informal Caregivers of Older Adults With and Without Dementia”.

The Centre for Social Informatics has been awarded funding for a three-year research project titled Socially Assistive Robots in Elder Care: Acceptance, Ageism, Affordability and Implications of its Use, financed by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS).

Dr. Lea Lebar, Izidor Natek, dr. Simona Hvalič Touzery and dr. Vesna Dolničar, in collaboration with Dr. Jeffrey W. Jutai, have published an original scientific article titled “Evaluating the psychosocial impacts of e-care use among older people receiving long-term care in Slovenia through the adapted PIADS-10 scale”.