As part of the Memory Machine research project, Rachel co-facilitated a series of workshops with participants exploring dementia, memory loss and ageing and how a ‘memory machine’ might be designed to support people with dementia.

Memory Machine (MeMa) is a Horizon Digital Economy, University of Nottingham research project led by Prof Elvira Perez. Rachel worked on the project between 2020-2023.

The participatory research process was published here: Gibson, R., Babbage, C.M., Wagner, H.G., Price, D.J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N.H., Ito-Jaeger, S., Darzentas, D.P., Webb, H., Jacobs, R. and Atabey, A., 2023, July. “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 987-1001).