Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home

Participation in forms of drama and narrative can provoke empathy and creativity in user-centred design processes. In this paper, we expand upon existing methods to explore the potential for responsive scripted experiences that are delivered through the combination of sensors and output devices plac...

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Main Authors: Coughlan, Tim, Brown, Michael, Lawson, Glyn, McAuley, Derek, Baurley, Sharon, Tsai, Allen, Koppe, Therese, Elliott, Meretta, Green, Stephen, Martin, Jennifer L.
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Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3042/
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author Coughlan, Tim
Brown, Michael
Lawson, Glyn
McAuley, Derek
Baurley, Sharon
Tsai, Allen
Koppe, Therese
Elliott, Meretta
Green, Stephen
Martin, Jennifer L.
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Brown, Michael
Lawson, Glyn
McAuley, Derek
Baurley, Sharon
Tsai, Allen
Koppe, Therese
Elliott, Meretta
Green, Stephen
Martin, Jennifer L.
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description Participation in forms of drama and narrative can provoke empathy and creativity in user-centred design processes. In this paper, we expand upon existing methods to explore the potential for responsive scripted experiences that are delivered through the combination of sensors and output devices placed in a home. The approach is being developed in the context of Dementia care, where the capacity for rich user participation in design activities is limited. In this case, a system can act as a proxy for a person with Dementia, allowing designers to gain experiences and insight as to what it is like to provide care for, and live with, this person. We describe the rationale behind the approach, a prototype system architecture, and our current work to explore the creation of scripted experiences for design, played out though UbiComp technologies.
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spelling nottingham-30422020-05-04T16:51:26Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3042/ Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home Coughlan, Tim Brown, Michael Lawson, Glyn McAuley, Derek Baurley, Sharon Tsai, Allen Koppe, Therese Elliott, Meretta Green, Stephen Martin, Jennifer L. Participation in forms of drama and narrative can provoke empathy and creativity in user-centred design processes. In this paper, we expand upon existing methods to explore the potential for responsive scripted experiences that are delivered through the combination of sensors and output devices placed in a home. The approach is being developed in the context of Dementia care, where the capacity for rich user participation in design activities is limited. In this case, a system can act as a proxy for a person with Dementia, allowing designers to gain experiences and insight as to what it is like to provide care for, and live with, this person. We describe the rationale behind the approach, a prototype system architecture, and our current work to explore the creation of scripted experiences for design, played out though UbiComp technologies. 2014-07-03 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Coughlan, Tim, Brown, Michael, Lawson, Glyn, McAuley, Derek, Baurley, Sharon, Tsai, Allen, Koppe, Therese, Elliott, Meretta, Green, Stephen and Martin, Jennifer L. (2014) Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home. In: ACM UbiComp '14, 13-17 Sept 2014, Seattle. (In Press) Home Design Drama Dementia Ubiquitous Computing UbiComp Design http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2014/
spellingShingle Home
Design Drama
Dementia
Ubiquitous Computing
UbiComp
Design
Coughlan, Tim
Brown, Michael
Lawson, Glyn
McAuley, Derek
Baurley, Sharon
Tsai, Allen
Koppe, Therese
Elliott, Meretta
Green, Stephen
Martin, Jennifer L.
Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
title Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
title_full Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
title_fullStr Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
title_full_unstemmed Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
title_short Living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
title_sort living with the user: design drama for dementia care through responsive scripted experiences in the home
topic Home
Design Drama
Dementia
Ubiquitous Computing
UbiComp
Design
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3042/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3042/