Designing Sentic: Participatory Design with People Living with Dementia

Thoolen, Myrte; Brankaert, Rens; Lü, Yuan

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32835-1_17

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“…We also managed to engage community-dwelling older adults to co-develop the deployment protocol, which was invaluable in helping us to refine the protocol for deploying the system and related testing for at-home exercise training programs. Our HCD process did not intend to create generalizable models (eg, user personas, empathy maps) of persons living with dementia/MCI [ 3 ] and their preferences for playing VR games. We intended to collect usable information that could inform our game design process and provide insights into which game elements were more suitable to elicit the required movements ( Table 2 ) while keeping the fun of exergaming.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As persons living with dementia have wide and dynamic preferences and abilities that are difficult (sometimes impossible) to simulate or speculate about, it is crucial to have their voice as a central part of the design process of technologies intended for them. While actively involving persons living with dementia in technology development has already started and multiple articles have documented valuable insights [ 2 , 3 , 13 ], the adoption rate is quite low and appropriate/effective methods for supporting their involvement are still being explored.…”

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Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for Persons Living With Dementia: User-Centered Design Study as a Multistakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Muñoz¹,

Mehrabi²,

Li³

et al. 2022

JMIR Serious Games

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Background Advancements in supporting personalized health care and well-being using virtual reality (VR) have created opportunities to use immersive games to support a healthy lifestyle for persons living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Collaboratively designing exercise video games (exergames) as a multistakeholder team is fundamental to creating games that are attractive, effective, and accessible. Objective This research extensively explores the use of human-centered design methods that involve persons living with dementia in long-term care facilitates, exercise professionals, content developers, game designers, and researchers in the creation of VR exergames targeting physical activity promotion for persons living with dementia/MCI. Methods Conceptualization, collaborative design, and playtesting activities were carried out to design VR exergames to engage persons living with dementia in exercises to promote upper limb flexibility, strength, and aerobic endurance. We involved a total of 7 persons living with dementia/MCI, 5 exercise professionals, 5 community-dwelling older adults, a VR company for content creation, and a multidisciplinary research team with game designers, engineers, and kinesiology experts. Results An immersive VR exergame called Seas the Day was jointly designed and developed and it is freely available to be played in state-of-the-art VR headsets (Oculus Quest 1, 2). A model for the triadic interaction (health care institution, industry partner, academia) is also presented to illustrate how different stakeholders contribute to the design of VR exergames that consider/complement complex needs, preferences, and motivators of an underrepresented group of end users. Conclusions This study provides evidence that a collaborative multistakeholder design results in more tailored and context-aware VR games for persons living with dementia. The insights and lessons learned from this research can be used by others to co-design games, including remote engagement techniques that were used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for Persons Living With Dementia: User-Centered Design Study as a Multistakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Muñoz¹,

Mehrabi²,

Li³

et al. 2022

JMIR Serious Games

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“…In addition, informal caregivers have expressed opportunities for using everyday sounds to facilitate shared activities with their loved one with dementia [19]. Therefore, we build further on existing research [20,89,94] by investigating how technology can support meaningful activities based on everyday sounds at home for people with dementia.…”

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“…For example, mockups can defne expectations for people with dementia early in the design phase and elicit meaningful forms of interaction [72,73]. Similarly, physical prototypes enable people with dementia to evaluate user interfaces and raise design improvements to tailor the interactions to their abilities [33,81,89].…”

Section: Co-design In Dementiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, experiencing sounds from everyday life can evoke storytelling, elicit emotional responses, and cue social interactions for people with dementia in institutionalized care settings [46,47]. But while research has previously explored how to make music accessible at home for people with dementia [20,89,94], there is still a gap of knowledge on how non-musical sounds can support meaningful activities in home settings and how they evoke social engagement between people with dementia and their informal caregivers.…”

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Designing for Everyday Sounds at Home with People with Dementia and their Partners

Houben

Brankaert

Kenning

et al. 2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The use of technology for arts-based activities in older adults living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia: A scoping review

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For older adults living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia, creative arts-based activities can offer many benefits from enjoyment as leisure/recreation to an avenue to maintain cognitive, social and emotional wellbeing. With growing interest and recognition that technology could have potential to assist in delivering these activities in more accessible and personalised ways, a scoping review was undertaken to systematically examine the scientific literature for technology-assisted creative arts activities for older adults living with dementia. We searched PubMed, PsychINFO, Web of Science, Scopus and ACM Digital Library databases using keywords centering on population with dementia, an intervention using technology, and a context of creative arts, with no restrictions on the type of outcome measured. We retrieved 3739 records, with an additional 22 from hand-searching. 51 full-text articles met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Findings of the review indicate technologies principally being designed for music activities (listening, and music-making), as well as storytelling and visual arts. The majority of devices were custom-made, with studies mainly reporting on validating the success of the device/intervention. This suggests most work in the field is currently at prototyping stage, although a few devices are now commercially available. Recommendations for future research includes involvement of participants reporting on their previous experiences in the arts and how this influences co-design choices, and inclusion of different severities of dementia in the participant/co-design group. Furthering device development past prototyping stage as well as collaboration between teams would enable comparisons to be made across different types of devices used for the same activity, and comparisons across arts-based activities that could lead to cross-disciplinary outcomes for the design of creative arts-based assistive technologies.

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Designing Sentic: Participatory Design with People Living with Dementia

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for Persons Living With Dementia: User-Centered Design Study as a Multistakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for Persons Living With Dementia: User-Centered Design Study as a Multistakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Designing for Everyday Sounds at Home with People with Dementia and their Partners

The use of technology for arts-based activities in older adults living with mild cognitive impairment or dementia: A scoping review

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