Digital technologies are increasingly seen as vital for the management of chronic diseases. At Daman, we are building the future digital health platform to improve the quality of life for chronic patients while reducing the costs for healthcare. In this role, you will be engaged in an industrial PhD in collaboration with the IT University of Copenhagen. If you are passionate about developing novel concepts for driving behavioural change among people with chronic diseases, please do let us know!

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be engaged in a 3-year industrial PhD project exploring an affect-oriented approach to designing interactions for improving patient lives.

The aim of the project is to cultivate affective and emotional features when adapting to a life with chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or other autoimmune diseases. The project seeks to develop new forms of interaction design that use micro-interactional features to support macro-relational changes in people’s lives. The overall focus will be on delivering value by designing affective interactions that explore a number of technological platforms with focus on the RheumaBuddy digital service.

In the PhD fellowship you will collaborate with the IT University of Copenhagen and Daman. You will be partly located at the university and partly at the Daman office in Copenhagen.

YOU & YOUR QUALIFICATIONS

• Have a genuine interest in healthcare and digital health services

• Hold a master’s degree in interaction design or participatory design

• Have attained at least a grade of 10 (Danish scale) for any final thesis/examination project

• Are able to work independently as well as in teams

• Are able to communicate with high proficiency in Danish and English

• Are well-structured in your work

As this PhD fellowship is supported by Innovation Fund Denmark, kindly note the requirements listed below.

APPLICATION

Submit your application, including cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, diploma and any publications via the Hub as quickly as possible and no later than May 31st 2019.

More information about the project and the position is available by contacting Andreas Dam, CEO at Daman, by e-mail andreas.dam@damandigital.com or by phone +45 51906020.

About IT University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) is a teaching and research-based tertiary institution concerned with information technology (IT) and the opportunities it offers. ITU has more than 160 full-time academics. Research and teaching in information technology span all academic activities which involve computers including computer science, information and media sciences, humanities and social sciences, business impact and the commercialization of IT. Learn more about ITU at www.itu.dk. 

At ITU, the project will be affiliated with the Affective Interaction & Relations (AIR) Lab and Research Group in the Digital Design Department. The Lab offers an experimental design space for exploring affective and emotional aspects of living with digital and interactive technologies. See more on www.airlab.itu.dk. Your main academic supervisor will be Associate Professor in Interaction Design, Jonas Fritsch, who is also Head of AIR. His work centers on a creative thinking of interaction design, experience design and affect theory with an increasing focus on matters within digital healthcare.

About Daman

Daman is a fast-growing provider of digital healthcare services. A number of digital health services are in the market serving thousands of patients throughout the European market using the HealthBuddy platform. The products are developed in collaboration with patient advocacy groups, healthcare professionals, public healthcare providers and the pharmaceutical industry. The vision is to globally give people with chronic diseases as high a quality of life as possible despite their disease.

We offer a great learning environment with an ambitious team working hard to make the world a better place by helping those with a chronic disease.