N/NY-TE-30 - Robots In The Art Studio: A Transdisciplinary Research Collaboration
New technologies are part of our clients’ daily lives and many therapists are exploring ways to incorporate new media into therapy. This presentation will cover a multi-year collaboration between researchers in social robotics and art therapy, focusing on the use of art-based research and client art about technology.
Anastasia Ostrowski
Anastasia K. Ostrowski is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Media Lab. She received her B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2016 and 2017, respectively. She has experience in engineering education and ideation studies. Her research interests include understanding how technologies impact society and human interactions and how technologists can responsibly design these technologies through design research, participatory design, art, and human-centered approaches.
Dr. Erin Partridge
Board Certified Art Therapist
Elder Care Alliance
Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC is an artist and board certified, registered art therapist. Her clinical experience includes work in community, pediatric, forensic, and geriatric settings. Erin received a BFA, studying fine art, psychology and women’s studies in at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She went onto obtain a MA in art therapy from New York University in 2008, and a PhD in art therapy from Notre Dame de Namur in 2016. Erin’s teaching and lecturing experience includes teaching at NDNU in the art therapy department, guest lectures in art and counseling programs, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, workshop facilitation at several national conferences, and interviews with media about art therapy.
Her research interests incorporate the lived experience and focus on participatory, ethnographic, and art-based approaches. She is currently working on responding to the findings of her research within the elder care context, and conducting continued research in this setting.