Dr. Sarah Foley is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork. She has an undergraduate degree in Applied Psychology and graduated with an Irish Research Council funded PhD from UCC in February 2020. In her research, Sarah employs qualitative research methods in the field of Human-Computer Interaction to examine the role of technology and design in care contexts. Her PhD research examined the role of technology to enhance social relationships in dementia care, resulting in a series of publications on co-design with people with dementia in care. She is currently (2021) working on research examining the role of technology to support older people’s interactions with nature (SFI Funded) and examining the purpose of care in HCI frameworks for the design of technology (NUI Award Holder).
Publications
2024
Foley, Sarah, Larkin, Fionnuala, Moore, Laura.
2024.
Understanding the experiences of receiving and providing maternity care for autistic adults: A Multi-perspectival Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis study.
Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 13623613241274518.
doi: 10.1177/13623613241274518.
2023
Brankaert, Rens, Foley, Sarah, Houben, Maarten, Lee, Minha, Morrissey, Kellie.
2023.
HCI Research in Sensitive Settings: Lessons Learned from Technology Design and Ethical Challenges in Dementia.
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3544549.3574193.
Booi, Laura, Coulter, Sandra, Foley, Sarah, Hodge, James, Kirk, David, Lambton-Howard, Dan, Montague, Kyle, Morrissey, Kellie.
2023.
Exploring Participants’ Representations and Shifting Sensitivities in a Hackathon for Dementia.
ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact., 30.
doi: 10.1145/3571814.
2022
Ciolfi, Luigina, Foley, Sarah, Morrissey, Kellie, Storni, Cristiano.
2022.
PDC Places: Landscapes of Participatory design in Ireland.
In: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 - Volume 2, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3537797.3537851.
2020
Foley, Sarah, John McCarthy, Pantidi, Nadia.
2020.
Student Engagement in Sensitive Design Contexts: A Case Study in Dementia Care.
In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376161.
Contact Details
University College Cork