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In The Moment: Designing For Late Stage Dementia, Cathy Treadaway, David Prytherch, Gail Kenning, Jac Fennell
In The Moment: Designing For Late Stage Dementia, Cathy Treadaway, David Prytherch, Gail Kenning, Jac Fennell
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This paper presents international multidisciplinary design research to support the wellbeing of people living with dementia. The LAUGH1 project aims to develop playful artefacts that will contribute to non-pharmacological personalised approaches to caring for people living with late stage dementia in residential care. This paper presents the context for this research and explains the initial stages of the work currently in progress. An inclusive participatory methodology is described in which key experts including: health professionals, technologists, materials scientists and carers of people living with dementia are informing the development of design concepts. A positive design approach in which designing for …
Measuring Product - Related Stigma In Design, Kristof Vaes, Pieter Jan Stappers, Achiel Standaert
Measuring Product - Related Stigma In Design, Kristof Vaes, Pieter Jan Stappers, Achiel Standaert
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Many medical and assistive devices are experienced as unpleasant and uncomfortable. On top of their discomfort, product users may also experience social unease. We label this process “product-related stigma” (PRS). This paper presents two measuring techniques that aim to objectively assess the ‘degree’ of PRS that is ‘attached’ to products. Both experiments focus on the behavioral deviations in the walking path of passers-by during a public and unprepared encounter with a user of a stigma-sensitive product (dust mask). The ‘Dyadic Distance Experiment’ measures exact interpersonal distances, whereas the ‘Stain Dilemma Experiment’ presents the passer-by with a choice in his walking …
Of Open Bodies: Challenges And Perspectives Of An Open Design Paradigm, Émeline Brulé, Frédéric Valentin
Of Open Bodies: Challenges And Perspectives Of An Open Design Paradigm, Émeline Brulé, Frédéric Valentin
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Several design practitioners claim to follow an open design philosophy, using open sourcing material, models or tools. But there has been little work on framing the properties of artefacts produced that way, nor on studying how “openness” influence design processes (Aitamurto, Holland & Hussain, 2015). In this paper, we propose to investigate Open Design through examples of prosthetic hands. These highly specific and personalized devices have to answer highly sensitive social, personal, subjective and functional requirements. They perfectly illustrate the challenges the Open Paradigm may help tackling, such as greater inclusivity through the reduction of stigma, access to social participation …