Navigating Illness, FInding Place
Supporting the Experience of Place for People with Chronic Illness
This project explores possibilities of designing for chronic illness using Lyme disease as a case study. Specifically, we explore the place-related impacts of living with chronic illness through interviews with individuals living with Lyme disease, synthesize a set of design guidelines that serve to support populations living with chronic illness, and present an interactive mapping prototype that applies our design guidelines to support individuals living with chronic illness in experiencing and navigating public and outdoor spaces.
Publications:
Sylvia Janicki, Matt Ziegler, and Jennifer Mankoff. (2021). Navigating Illness, Finding Place: Enhancing the Experience of Place for People with Chronic Illness. ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS ’21). Available at: https://doi.org/10/1145/3460112.3471955
Sylvia Janicki. (2018). [Dis]placed by Illness: Lyme disease as a Case for Re-imagining Everyday Places to Recognize Invisible Chronic illnesses. MLA and MUP Thesis. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Available at https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/42423
Presentations/Workshops:
Sylvia Janicki. 2019. [Dis]placed by Illness: Exploring Narratives of Chronic Illness for a More Inclusive Built Environment. Presented at the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Conference in Sacremento, CA: Mar 6 – 9, 2019.
SYLVIA H JANICKI 