Experiencing COVID-19 Through Science and Technology: Adjusting, Adapting, Innovating [Funder: Carleton University COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grants]

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Funder

    Other Funders (Canada)
  • Principal Investigator

    David Dean
  • Research Location

    Canada
  • Lead Research Institution

    Carleton University
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    N/A

  • Special Interest Tags

    Innovation

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

This project documents how people have adjusted their lives to the realities of home-bound living during COVID-19 through the lens of science and technology. This lens has become integral to our understanding of everyday experiences of COVID-19: How much are we relying on science and how are we depending on new and old technologies? How have people adjusted their expectations of daily life during their experience of social distancing, of lockdown, and of quarantine? What adaptations have they been forced to contemplate and put into effect? How have they needed to innovate in their use of technologies in everyday life? By creating an archive of changes in domestic and other home-based technologies, and generating content for future exhibitions (virtual/physical) associated with the Carleton Centre for Public History and Ingenium, our project will help individuals, families, communities, and institutions learn from this experience and prepare for future outbreaks and new pandemics.