Reframing loneliness through the design of a virtual reality reminiscence artefact for older adults

Veldmeijer, Lars; Wartena, Bard O.; Terlouw, Gijs; Veer, Job van’t

doi:10.1080/24735132.2020.1848976

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“…The answers to these questions lie in how elderly and vulnerable groups in homes can act as social designers to address the needs they want answered for their futures [ 165 ]. Tailored needs and interventions focusing on individual experiences can be promoted through co-design and participatory activities [ 166 ].…”

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An Overview of Sensors, Design and Healthcare Challenges in Smart Homes: Future Design Questions

Nthubu

2021

Healthcare

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The ageing population increases the demand for customized home care. As a result, sensing technologies are finding their way into the home environment. However, challenges associated with how users interact with sensors and data are not well-researched, particularly from a design perspective. This review explores the literature on important research projects around sensors, design and smart healthcare in smart homes, and highlights challenges for design research. A PRISMA protocol-based screening procedure is adopted to identify relevant articles (n = 180) on the subject of sensors, design and smart healthcare. The exploration and analysis of papers are performed using hierarchical charts, force-directed layouts and ‘bedraggled daisy’ Venn diagrams. The results show that much work has been carried out in developing sensors for smart home care. Less attention is focused on addressing challenges posed by sensors in homes, such as data accessibility, privacy, comfort, security and accuracy, and how design research might solve these challenges. This review raises key design research questions, particularly in working with sensors in smart home environments.

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An Overview of Sensors, Design and Healthcare Challenges in Smart Homes: Future Design Questions

Nthubu

2021

Healthcare

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“…Who are the partners in the relevant kinds of social interactions? Do they have to be exercised in person, or can virtual reality help (e.g., [16])? Is there an important bodily aspect to them?…”

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The Psychological Structure of Loneliness

Seemann

2022

IJERPH

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Despite the current surge of interest in loneliness, its health consequences, and possible remedies, the concept itself remains poorly understood. This paper seeks to contribute to a more fully worked out account of what loneliness consists in. It does this by stressing that loneliness always has an experiential component and by introducing a simple psychological structure to analyze the experience. On this basis, it suggests that we can distinguish between three ways of thinking about the phenomenal dimension of loneliness. There are objectivist views that seek to understand loneliness by a description of its intentional object, subjectivist views that consider its holistic relation to other aspects of the sufferer’s psyche, and embodied and enacted views that focus on the relation between the lonely person’s mental life and her social environment. The aim is not to adjudicate between these views or to suggest that they are mutually exclusive. Rather, this paper recommends a pluralistic framework on which all three approaches have something to contribute to a fuller understanding of the condition and may be of use in devising measures aimed at improving sufferers’ mental health.

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“…It is crucial for design teams to work together effectively and constructively in the design discipline, even if the backgrounds and practices differ. Within the design, multilayered interactions can occur, and through the development of co-design practices, users can become active participants in design projects and processes [63,64]. There is a wide variety of methods in design to facilitate constructive collaboration between practices in health innovation, such as hackathons [65][66][67], future workshops [68,69], and other creative participatory design methods [70][71][72].…”

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Boundary Objects as Dialogical Learning Accelerators for Social Change in Design for Health: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Terlouw¹,

Kuipers²,

Veldmeijer³

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BACKGROUND Boundary objects can add value for innovative design and implementation research in health care through their organizational focus and the dynamic structure between ill-structured and tailored use. However, when innovation is approached as a boundary object, more attention will need to be paid to the preimplementation phase. Research and design thinking pay attention to the preimplementation stage but do not have a social or organizational focus per se. The integration of boundary objects in design methodologies can provide a more social and organizational focus in innovative design projects by mapping out the mechanisms that occur at boundaries during design. Four dialogical learning mechanisms that can be triggered at boundaries have been described in the literature: identification, coordination, reflection, and transformation. These mechanisms seem suitable for integration in innovative design research on health. OBJECTIVE Focusing on innovation in health, this study aims to find out whether the different learning mechanisms can be linked to studies on health innovation that mention boundary objects as a concept and assess whether the related mechanisms provide insight into the stage of the design and implementation or change process. METHODS The following 6 databases were searched for relevant abstracts: PubMed, Scopus, Education Resources Information Center, PsycINFO, Information Science and Technology Abstracts, and Embase. These databases cover a wide range of published studies in the field of health. RESULTS Our initial search yielded 3102 records; after removing the duplicates, 2186 (70.47%) records were screened on the title and abstract, and 25 (0.81%) papers were included; of the 13 papers where we identified 1 mechanism, 5 (38%) described an innovation or innovative project, and of the 12 papers where we identified more mechanisms, 9 (75%) described the development or implementation of an innovation. The reflective mechanism was not identified solely but was present in papers describing a more successful development or implementation project of innovation. In these papers, the predetermined goals were achieved, and the process of integration was relatively smoother. CONCLUSIONS The concept of boundary objects has found its way into health care. Although the idea of a boundary object was introduced to describe how specific artifacts can fulfill a bridging function between different sociocultural sites and thus have a social focus, the focus in the included papers was often on the boundary object itself rather than the social effect. The reflection and transformation mechanisms were underrepresented in the included studies but based on the findings in this review, pursuing to trigger the reflective mechanism in design, development, and implementation projects can lead to a more fluid and smooth integration of innovation into practice.

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Reframing loneliness through the design of a virtual reality reminiscence artefact for older adults

Cited by 19 publications

References 50 publications

An Overview of Sensors, Design and Healthcare Challenges in Smart Homes: Future Design Questions

An Overview of Sensors, Design and Healthcare Challenges in Smart Homes: Future Design Questions

The Psychological Structure of Loneliness

Boundary Objects as Dialogical Learning Accelerators for Social Change in Design for Health: Systematic Review (Preprint)

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