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This chapter briefly describes a co-design project with people living with dementia, family care partners and clinical teams to create DataDay—a self-management app with an accompanying memory services portal. The project utilised the Tools for User Needs Gathering to Sustain Technology ENgagement (TUNGSTEN) approach of working with the users of technology as experts. Over seven months, four interactive sessions took place examining interactions with smart devices, current device and app use, and prototyping the DataDay interface and portal. This chapter focuses on the co-design sessions with people living with dementia and family caregivers and illustrates the benefits of the TUNGSTEN approach for co-designing with this population.
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This work was supported by an RCPP grant from the Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) and award AW CRP 2015-WP1.2 from AGE-WELL to the first author. The work reported here was undertaken as part of the first author’s tenure as Ontario Shores Research Chair for Dementia Wellbeing sponsored by Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, Ontario Shores Foundation and University of Toronto between August 2013 and March 2019. We are eternally grateful to all of the people who generously gave up their time to co-design DataDay, including our partners at Alzheimer’s Society Durham Region and Central East LHIN Primary Care Collaborative Memory Services.
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Astell, A., Dove, E., Morland, C., Donovan, S. (2020). Using the TUNGSTEN Approach to Co-design DataDay: A Self-management App for Dementia. In: Brankaert, R., Kenning, G. (eds) HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32835-1_11
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