Promoting Personhood for People with Dementia Through Shared Social Touchscreen Interactions

Pedell, Sonja; Favilla, Stuart; Murphy, Andrew W.; Beh, Jeanie; Petrovich, Tanya

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-26292-1_18

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“…When designing technology to support the health needs of this population, accessibility and suitability to the individuals needs must be prioritized [ 6 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ]. The drive toward participatory approaches warrants the inclusion of people living with dementia and their informal caregivers as ‘experts-by-experience’ to plan for data collection and identify design priorities for VR applications [ 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 ].…”

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Introducing and Familiarising Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers to Virtual Reality

Flynn

Barry

Koh

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly being applied in dementia care across a range of applications and domains including health and wellbeing. Despite the commercial availability of VR, informants of design are not always aware of its functionality and capabilities, to meaningfully contribute to VR design. In designing VR applications for people living with dementia, it is recommended that older adults living with dementia and their support persons be involved in the design process using participatory approaches, thereby giving them a voice on the design of technology from the outset. A VR technology probe is a useful means of familiarising older adults living with dementia and their informal caregivers with the knowledge and understanding of interactive VR to employ technology that supports them to maintain their social health. This paper charts the implementation and evaluation of a VR technology probe, VR FOUNDations. To explore their experiences, nine older adults living with dementia and their nine informal caregivers trialled VR FOUNDations and completed semi-structured interviews after its use. Overall, older adults living with dementia and their informal caregivers perceived VR FOUNDations to achieve its aim of increasing understanding and inspiring future design decisions. The findings also identified promising positive experiences using a VR technology probe which may be indicative of its applicability to social health and wellbeing domains. This paper advocates for the structured design and implementation of VR technology probes as a pre-requisite to the participatory design of VR applications for the health and wellbeing of people living with dementia. The use of such technology probes may afford older adults living with dementia and their informal caregivers the best opportunity to contribute to design decisions and participate in technology design to support their health and wellbeing.

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Introducing and Familiarising Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers to Virtual Reality

Flynn

Barry

Koh

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…he quality of being shared contributes to the body of literature that has identiied the beneits of social interaction for people in residential care (e.g. [5,28,59]).…”

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Evaluating Engagement in Technology-Supported Social Interaction by People Living with Dementia in Residential Care

Muñoz

Pedell

Sterling

2022

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Technologies can support the wellbeing of people living with dementia in residential care by fostering meaningful interactions through multimodal and playful features. This article presents the evaluation of A Better Visit, an app that aims to engage residents and visitors in shared activities. We define engagement in terms of dyadic interactions with the interface of the device, and interactions within the social context of the care home. We generated two Motivational Models that describe different perspectives of how people engaged with the system: the first was built with the design team, and the second was built using the first Motivational Model as sensitising concept for the analysis of data from four care homes that used the app for periods of three months. Our findings show that the facilitation of activities plays a relevant role for engaging in social interaction. We discuss how technologies can contribute to engaging people living with dementia in social interaction: firstly, facilitation can be understood as a concept that is supported by people and technology. Secondly, we discuss the influence of the social context of the setting and the understandings of the individual in how people assess engagement of the residents in social interaction.

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A Co-design Approach for Developing and Implementing Smart Health Technologies and Services

Pedell

Sterling

Aimers

et al. 2023

Intelligent Systems Reference Library

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Promoting Personhood for People with Dementia Through Shared Social Touchscreen Interactions

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Introducing and Familiarising Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers to Virtual Reality

Introducing and Familiarising Older Adults Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers to Virtual Reality

Evaluating Engagement in Technology-Supported Social Interaction by People Living with Dementia in Residential Care

A Co-design Approach for Developing and Implementing Smart Health Technologies and Services

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