Life changes, connection stays

Dijk, Betsy van; Dadlani, Pavan; Halteren, Aart van; Biemans, Margit

doi:10.1145/1962300.1962327

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“…This device displayed random photos with specific topics from the Internet, and was piloted for two months in a nursing home. Their findings confirmed the observations of Dijk, Dadlani, Halteren, and Biemans (2010) that picture displaying devices can trigger social conversations. Baecker, Sellen, Crosskey, Boscart, and Neves (2014) also explored tablet-based systems "to reduce social isolation and loneliness" of older people, using a series of short-term deployments and pilot tests.…”

Section: Deploying Technologies To Support Older People and Communica...supporting

confidence: 83%

“…On their account, they communicated more often, as they now possessed a novel and lightweight channel for getting in touch. In addition, in accordance with Dijk et al (2010), the exchanged photos served as "food for talk", that is, the prototypes not only depicted novel channels for communication, they were also the topic of conversations.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Similarly, Dijk, Dadlani, Halteren, and Biemans (2010) studied how institutionalized patients or older people communicated with their families using digital photo frames (located at the bedside) and camera phones (operated by family/friends) over 6-7 weeks. The technology aided the patients in reconnecting with their loved-ones despite distance, sometimes despite their severe injuries.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Designing for older adults can be complex. Often, designers struggle to understand people who share a very different life context. At the same time, older adults can have difficulties imagining future technologies for themselves. This creates challenges for design processes bounded by time and outcome expectations. In this paper, the authors explore a long-term, loosely structured and open-ended research process where they provided participants with prototypes to use for as long as they wanted, and only as they wanted to. By working with their own relatives and friends and moving away from structured procedures and external agendas, the authors made space for both participants and designers for deep engagements with the artifacts and process. Participants were able to better understand technology and shape it to their needs. Researchers were better able to understand and iterate on the technology designs. The authors' findings suggest that this approach might be especially appropriate for designing for and with older adults.

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“…Staying active and engaged online throughout the lifespan has become an integral part of full participation in society. Prior work highlights the importance of designing tools for creating, sharing, and communicating online throughout older adulthood [13,18,22,31,35,50,67]. While several systems have been developed for older adults with dementia [1,32,68], these focus on communication alone rather than enabling expression through creating and sharing original content.…”

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Supporting People with Dementia in Digital Social Sharing

Lazar

Edasis

Piper

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Sharing online is an important way in which people across the lifespan express themselves, maintain relationships, and connect with others. Yet, people with dementia are often not supported in engaging to the full extent of their abilities, particularly in their interaction with online technology. This paper presents a design case study that examines what it means to design for agency in online sharing involving individuals with dementia. Our work is situated in the context of art therapy for adults with dementia. We present the design and exploration of Moments, a system that allows individuals to share through artwork by manipulating their physical environment. We discuss how designing for agency calls attention to the ways in which the material workspace, including the tools we introduce, and the surrounding social context participate in the creation of agency.

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Viability of Magazines for Stimulating Social Interactions in Nursing Homes

Caforio

Báez

Casati

2017

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2017

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Social isolation and loneliness have a strong negative impact on health and happiness. The correlation is present at all ages, but the risk of loneliness and isolation is particularly high in later life and when transitioning to residential care settings, where keeping in touch with the family, making new friends and integrating with the community in a new social context can be very challenging. In this note we report on our preliminary studies on the opportunity and feasibility of using custom, printed magazines for increasing feelings of connectedness and promoting meaningful interactions in nursing homes. The content and layout for the magazine are generated in an automatic or semi-automatic way and emphasize aspects that could lead to discovering connections or starting conversations. Initial findings point to the potential for such a magazine and lead to content guidelines that we elaborate in the paper.

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Life changes, connection stays

Cited by 15 publications

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Supporting People with Dementia in Digital Social Sharing

Viability of Magazines for Stimulating Social Interactions in Nursing Homes

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