This paper reports on the user requirements analysis, design and evaluation of smart home solutions for people with dementia. In order to be appropriate for people with dementia, smart home technologies should keep interaction with users to a minimum. In the work presented in this paper, discussions with carers, as well as a more formal user-survey, provided a good understanding of the issues that are faced by this group, and useful indications of potential design solutions. This preliminary survey work led to a design approach that used carer emulation, familiarity of appearance, incorporation of verbal prompts and reminders, and careful user-monitoring, to achieve effective devices. This design approach is illustrated through several examples of specific designs. Evaluations of stand-alone systems were carried out prior to smart home installation, and illustrated the complex interface that exists between assistive technology and people with dementia.
This paper describes work in progress evaluating a B. Devices and Systems smart flat for people with dementia that is part of an Extra-Care development in London. The flat has been let to a permanent Several assistveldevicea m s havbee n alledin tenant who has dementia. They are fitted with a KNX (EIB)l the flat by the development team. They seek to follow a design based integrated smart house system providing local intervention philosophy where they mimic the actions of a human carer. and monitoring in the event of a problem being detected by the They aim to keep the user informed of what is happening in the built in distributed sensor network. Close cooperation between flat, and be usable without prior knowledge. Existing familiar the system designers, housing manager, social services, evaluation team, users and carers has proved to be important to successful ue inter paradis a em wherever ps b and efficient completion of the design and installation of this 1) Cooke inder. isva system tt cat o the hob v technology and its subsequent evaluation. It is expected that if smoke is detected. However, before it switches the hob off, much data will be collected using outcome measures and data it plays a voice message to the tenant informing him that his logging that will facilitate the configuration and evaluation of cooker requires immediate attention. If the smoke alarm clears smart systems for people with dementia.
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