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As a result of the work by Tom Kitwood, one of the main aims of dementia care is the maintenance of personhood; therefore, this article reflects on how design can contribute to this purpose. Kitwood identified ten different interactions toward people with dementia that can enhance well-being and contribute to the preservation of personhood, which he called Positive Person Work. Each interaction is explored from a design perspective: speculating on how we might design for the experience of specific interactions, taking into account different roles that artefacts can have in mediating them, and how they can be used as considerations for involving people with dementia as participants in a codesign process. These Positive Person Work interactions also served as evaluation themes for participants to comment on the experience of using the designed outputs of this research, adding a user perspective. The ideas we share in this article do not intend to be prescriptive or to propose one way of designing for and with people with dementia. Instead, they aim to look at Kitwood’s framework from a design perspective, informing and inspiring design researchers and practitioners who work with people with dementia.
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The authors would like to thank all the participants, from families and institutions, for their availability and contributions. This work was funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology in the scope of Ph.D. grant PD/BD/105810/2014.
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Branco, R.M., Quental, J., Ribeiro, Ó. (2020). Materializing Personhood: Design-Led Perspectives. 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_8
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