Grüezi! Last week Ceren Polat and Dr. Rasita Vinay attended the EACME 2025 Annual Conference in Zurich, where they presented their latest work on GRACE, during a poster session and an oral presentation.

This year’s conference theme was on Responsible Innovation: Ethical Perspectives on Health Care Research and Practice, and was hosted by the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich.

Overall, our team members from the Core in Digital Ethics and Care for Older Adults had a successful and inspiring time at the conference, where they were able to engage in conversations with other bioethicists and healthcare researchers about emerging assistive technologies within dementia care, and the importance of ethical innovation.

See the book of abstract here!

References:

1. Vinay, R. (2025). GRACE: towards trustworthy AI principles in a voice assistant with older adults, a pilot study. Presented at the EACME 2025 Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (September 11-13, 2025). Oral presentation (see page 6 book of abstracts).

2. Polat, C., & Vinay, R. (2025) Exploring the Ethical and Technical Considerations of GRACE, A Voice Assistant for Dementia Care. Presented at the EACME 2025 Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (September 11-13, 2025). Poster presentation (see page 43 book of abstracts). [pdf]