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International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health

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Mapping Memories for People with Dementia

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Due to the demographic change and the world’s ageing populations the number of people with dementia will rise dramatically in the coming years. Dementia impacts all areas of daily life and, in particular, memory and communication. Although technology provides promising means to address these challenges, few technologies have been successfully developed that empower the people with dementia instead of simply leaving them in a passive position. We aim specifically to design interactive systems that can be used by people with dementia, e.g., as part of reminiscence therapy to remember the past and communicate with others. In this paper, we present our research and design approach and exemplify the design case of the interactive Reminiscence Map. This is a tangble interface developed in collaboration with a person with early stage dementia. We present results and further developments based on field research and focus groups with care experts.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the students that have put their energy into doing field research in this sensitive area and developing the multimedia artifacts. Special thanks also go to all partners of the project from dementia care, technology development and related fields, who provided opportunities for field research and took part in workshops and focus groups providing helpful insights and feedback on our designs. Last, we thank all people with dementia and their caregivers for taking part in this research and opening up to us to share their life stories, concerns and wishes.

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Alina Huldtgren

  2. University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

    Alina Huldtgren, Anja Vormann & Christian Geiger

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  1. School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Markus Helfert

  2. Human-Computer Interaction, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger

  3. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Martina Ziefle

  4. Inst Sup Téc, Inst de Telecom, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Fred

  5. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    John O'Donoghue

  6. Sys Tech & Image Exploitation, Fraunhofer Institute of Optonics, Lemgo, Germany

    Carsten Röcker

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Huldtgren, A., Vormann, A., Geiger, C. (2015). Mapping Memories for People with Dementia. In: Helfert, M., Holzinger, A., Ziefle, M., Fred, A., O'Donoghue, J., Röcker, C. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health. ICT4AWE 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 578. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27695-3_10

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