Dr. Gloria Opoku with teammates
Gloria Opoku-Boateng Osardu, the 27-year-old Ghanaian PhD holder working with User Experience (UX) Research at Northrop Gruman, a leading Aerospace and Security Company, has stunned the world with her discovery of a Brain Game likely to improve memory alertness levels among most aged persons.
The Ghanaian born scientist and researcher received her PhD in Information Systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Country (UMB) with a dissertation research investigating Brain Fitness Games as intervention for the aged –related cognitive decline in healthy older adults.
In an interview with Techpreneur Magazine, a free digital magazine aimed at promoting Ghana’s booming tech industry, she explained that her research looked into how certain games that need a lot of thinking through can be used to help old people who tend to lose their ability to reason.
“You know when they say old people think like babies? Yeah, and I do not want that around old people any longer,” she told the Magazine.
Dr. Gloria Opoku-Boateng, who graduated from Valley View University (VVU), has worked with IBM, Google and other high profile companies.
She is currently a senior research fellow at User Experience (UX).
The young talented Ghanaian Researcher must indeed be lucky in life, having swam her way through a number of scholarships and grants from IBM, Google, Linkedin and Xerox and participated in several conferences.
Asked what the world should expect from her in the next three years, she stated that “I am not sure what to expect myself but I honestly pray for life till then let’s see…”
Gloria, who has two siblings, stated that her objective at the moment is to be able to create opportunities for others and support women in technology with opportunities that are available.
“The idea of harnessing resources to come back to Ghana and host a UX Hackathon that both empowers others and teaches critical UX research methods is not farfetched and three years is a short or long time to make that happen depending how you look at it,” she added.
By Solomon Ofori