Dr Asangi Jayatilaka joins the CRE Frailty & Healthy Ageing

Dr Jayatilaka received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Adelaide in 2017.

Her PhD used qualitative descriptive designs to explore the need for technology for promoting nutritional health in older people living with dementia in their homes. Her work looked at understanding perceptions of care workers recruited from the aged care industry as stakeholder views are crucial for technologies to be effective and accepted by users. She obtained reliable insights for designing such technologies and identified eleven considerations for developing effective technologies for older people and care workers. Her thesis presents two technology development demonstrations as a stepping stone for future technology development.

Asangi is excited about research related to human factors in computing, especially in the direction of health-related technology development. She is also interested in qualitative and quantitative data analysis, data mining and machine learning. Apart from her research, she has also experience in teaching at Australian and overseas universities and has experience working as a business analyst in an international software engineering company.

We are looking forward to seeing what interesting insights Dr Jayatilaka will bring to frailty and healthy ageing research in the future.