Designing for Reminiscence with People with Dementia

2019. James Edmeads & Oussama Metatla
Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

We investigate how technology can be used to support people with dementia to engage in Reminiscence Therapy. We used a participatory design approach carried out over three stages: scope, design and evaluation, involving five participants with dementia. We also engaged professionals and caregivers through a survey. We provide initial recommendations for engaging participants with dementia on how they wish to reminisce and what technology may support this.

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Citation

Edmeads, J., & Metatla, O. (2019). Designing for reminiscence with people with dementia. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–6). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313059, doi:10.1145/3290607.3313059

BibTeX

@inproceedings{10.1145/3290607.3313059,
author = {Edmeads, James and Metatla, Oussama},
title = {Designing for Reminiscence with People with Dementia},
year = {2019},
isbn = {9781450359719},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313059},
doi = {10.1145/3290607.3313059},
abstract = {We investigate how technology can be used to support people with dementia to engage in Reminiscence Therapy. We used a participatory design approach carried out over three stages: scope, design and evaluation, involving five participants with dementia. We also engaged professionals and caregivers through a survey. We provide initial recommendations for engaging participants with dementia on how they wish to reminisce and what technology may support this.},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {1–6},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {care homes, dementia, interactive prototypes, reminiscence, user centred design},
location = {Glasgow, Scotland Uk},
series = {CHI EA '19}
}