Dr Linda Shore is an experienced User eXperience (UX) design researcher who specialises in people adoption and acceptance of emerging technologies. Her research interests and expertise regarding transgenerational and lifecourse experience, women-centered-design, perceptions towards emerging technology, applied research methodologies, and future focused design solutions that enhance quality of life and the lived experience across Humanity, Society, and Policy themes. Her practice 'begins and ends with humans' as we navigate the 21st century and beyond. She has applied her work as a kinetic chain approach or whole systems approach to optimising life, and navigating the access points across numerous environments, systems and services through Design. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Linda-Shore https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lindashoredesignresearcher She contributes to EU COST Actions on age-friendly environments, technology and participatory design, ISO guidelines for smart multigenerational neighbourhoods, and a new BSI standard addressing menstrual and menopausal health at work. She is an Associate staff member of Edinburgh Napier University for PhD supervision.