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Designing Sustainable Futures, Sara Ilstedt, Josefin Wangel Jun 2013

Designing Sustainable Futures, Sara Ilstedt, Josefin Wangel

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This paper discusses how future studies and design could enable a more conscious and participatory engagement in our common future. The starting point being that representations of the future are often done in an abstract and quantitative manner, which hinders a broad engagement, and understanding of the implications of the scenarios presented. We discuss how on-going research including experimental design methodologies can be used to make images of the future more concrete and accessible. Finally, we argue, not only for prototyping as a method to make the ungraspable future more concrete, but foremost for a designerly approach to the most …

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Open Wearables: Crafting Fashion-Tech, ValéRie Lamontagne Jun 2013

Open Wearables: Crafting Fashion-Tech, ValéRie Lamontagne

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This paper investigates the role of the designer in the “opening” of culture in fashion and technology. In particular it explores the convergence of “open practices” at the vanguard of technologies and fabrication processes found in the history of Modernist fashion, as well as recent popular uses of rapid prototyping technologies, engineering, and more specifically wearables design practices.

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Sustainable Infrastructure For Ad Hoc Social Interaction, Lone Malmborg, Signe Yndigegn Jun 2013

Sustainable Infrastructure For Ad Hoc Social Interaction, Lone Malmborg, Signe Yndigegn

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We explore how to design sustainable infrastructure for ad hoc social interaction based on the conception of infrastructuring, meta-design and Living Labs. The exploration is based on a design experiment of establishing a Network Zone (a Living Lab setup) with support of a smart phone app. The objectives of our design program were to create connections and design possibilities for letting social interaction emerge through use that could continue beyond the project period. The experiment was part of a project in collaboration with a larger urban municipality (Copenhagen) to rethink the way we can offer services to senior citizens in …

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Sacred Services: The Potential For Service Design Of Theory Relating To The Sacred, Ted Matthews Jun 2013

Sacred Services: The Potential For Service Design Of Theory Relating To The Sacred, Ted Matthews

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As we move deeper and into a service economy, differentiation of service offerings occurring through the customer experience is becoming central to the success of service providers. The emerging discipline of service design must find new ways to orchestrate settings for customers that will result in favourable and memorable service experiences allowing for differentiation to take place. Services are defined through their intangibility where customer’s efforts are deemed inseparable from creating favourable experiences. The temporal nature of services mean that time is an important dimension. These factors can be a challenge for the service designer. Around the sacred, rituals and …

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The Social Fabric: Exploring The Social Value Of Craftsmanship For Service Design, Michelle Baggerman, Kristi Kuusk, Daniëlle Arets, Bas Raijmakers, Oscar Tomico Jun 2013

The Social Fabric: Exploring The Social Value Of Craftsmanship For Service Design, Michelle Baggerman, Kristi Kuusk, Daniëlle Arets, Bas Raijmakers, Oscar Tomico

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This paper addresses the social component of craftsmanship in relation to service design. The transferal of crafting skills and knowledge can be considered a service that is co-created between master and apprentice. The social aspects of learning craftsmanship will be discussed in the light of how they could benefit designers in the development of Product Service Systems. Workshops in bobbin-lace making that took place as part of a research project about smart-textile Product Service Systems serve as the foundation of this analysis. A group of designers assumed the role of apprentices in these workshops. The aim was not only to …

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Becoming The Energy Aware Clock: Revisiting The Design Process Through A Feminist Gaze, Karin Ehrnberger, Loove Broms, Cecilia Katzeff* Jun 2013

Becoming The Energy Aware Clock: Revisiting The Design Process Through A Feminist Gaze, Karin Ehrnberger, Loove Broms, Cecilia Katzeff*

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This paper explores the border between technology and design (form giving) from a feminist perspective. Looking at the energy system and how it has been integrated in the household, we want to address the underlying structures that have been built into the ecology of electrical appliances used in daily life, preserving certain norms that could be questioned from both a gender and a sustainability perspective. We have created an alternative electricity meter, the Energy AWARE Clock, addressing design issues uncovered in an initial field study. In this paper, we will make parallels to these issues. We also use feminist technoscience …

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The Ingenuity Of Ageing: An Experiment To Explore The Role Of Designers As A Moral Subject, Denny Ho, Yanki Lee Jun 2013

The Ingenuity Of Ageing: An Experiment To Explore The Role Of Designers As A Moral Subject, Denny Ho, Yanki Lee

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As a dialogue with the advocates of the idea of ‘design process as Things’ of which designers become facilitators and supporters for design process, we attempt to argue that designers should understand their role as a moral subject and their values in design should be revealed and discussed with design participants. Regarding the ways of deliberating values in design process, we employed Ricoeur’s ideas of utopia and ideology as the key concepts guiding the design of our experiment with a group of retired academics in China. We argue that designers could accomplish this task through a critique of ideology and …

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Invisible Man: Literature And The Body In Design Practice, Tarryn Handcock Jun 2013

Invisible Man: Literature And The Body In Design Practice, Tarryn Handcock

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As a culturally produced text, literature is seen as a lens with the potential to draw attention to the values, ideas, and beliefs that underlie a society. In this paper three key themes in H.G. Wells’ novel The Invisible Man (1897), are discussed: firstly, the ways that the body may be fashioned through dress and individual practices; secondly, how wearable artefacts may socialize bodies and symbolically communicate; and thirdly, how the fashioned body may challenge personal and cultural boundaries. Collectively, these issues draw attention to the relational network of body, culture, and dress. These relationships are highly relevant to design …

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Cardboard Hospital: Prototyping Patient-Centric Environments And Services, Juha Kronqvist, Heini Erving, Teemu Leinonen Jun 2013

Cardboard Hospital: Prototyping Patient-Centric Environments And Services, Juha Kronqvist, Heini Erving, Teemu Leinonen

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Cardboard hospital is a co-design method and prototyping environment for creating patientcentric hospital spaces and services. The method development was situated within a building project of a hospital wing in which the aim was to find new ways for including patients in the design process. The method was developed through combining participatory design methodology with the professional capabilities of a set designer. Cardboard hospital provides an environment that supports participatory design processes and guides participants towards participation as an artistic practice. The paper is situated in the theoretical framework of pragmatic aesthetics and builds on the notion of an aesthetic …

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A Foray Into Not-Quite Companion Species: Design Experiments With Urban-Animals As Signi!Cant Others, Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Li Jönsson Jun 2013

A Foray Into Not-Quite Companion Species: Design Experiments With Urban-Animals As Signi!Cant Others, Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Li Jönsson

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This paper examines the project, Urban Animals and Us, as a journey - or foray - into the ‘terrain vague’ between people and (other) animals with whom we share urban space. Through three design experiments developed around speculative prototypes and co-design tools, we attempt to bring ’wild’ urban animals - like magpies and gulls into contact with the residents of a senior retirement home, to explore what new practices can arise between, otherwise, unconnected life-worlds. We expand the notion of companion species from philosopher of science Donna Haraway and begin to position the current project within a growing interest in …

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Printed Material And Fabric, Jussi Mikkonen, Reetta Myllymäki, Sari Kivioja, Santeri Vanhakartano, Helena Suonsilta Jun 2013

Printed Material And Fabric, Jussi Mikkonen, Reetta Myllymäki, Sari Kivioja, Santeri Vanhakartano, Helena Suonsilta

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As wearables get more complex and closer to the skin, so do the requirements for the packaging and the placement of the electrical components. The advent of 3D-printers and flexible printing materials provide means of building fabric-like structures. We tested a flexible material without moving micro- or meso-structures, as the material itself would be fabric-like. Tests were conducted according to SFS-EN ISO 13934-1, suggesting directions for using printable materials. In the end, we created a corselet and a corset, along with a connector suited for attaching various materials together.

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Design Experiments With Social Media And Museum Content In The Context Of The Distributed Museum, Dagny Stuedahl, Sarah Lowe Jun 2013

Design Experiments With Social Media And Museum Content In The Context Of The Distributed Museum, Dagny Stuedahl, Sarah Lowe

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The relationship of digital technology to museum practices is a field that continues to grow and acknowledge the potential of development. Development that will require new understandings related to museum content travelling across contexts, participatory methods suitable to designing digital technology into museum communication and new forms of relationships with visitors and citizens. In this paper we explore the use of a small-scale prototype experiment as the basis for exploring mobile social media based practices related to the distributed museum within the city. The design experiment is staged with inspiration from critical design, in which design thinking and cultural investigation …

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‘Designerly’ Analysis Of Participation Structures, Jacob Buur, Marie Rosa Beuthel, Agnese Caglio Jun 2013

‘Designerly’ Analysis Of Participation Structures, Jacob Buur, Marie Rosa Beuthel, Agnese Caglio

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With the inclusion of not only users but stakeholders of many different kinds, design processes turn into complex collaborative challenges. Thus, improving design practices requires research into how people participate and contribute in social interaction. But research methods for understanding such activities tend to be highly analytical and hence difficult for design researchers to engage with, if results are meant to be actionable. Through a series of experiments we develop tangible support for a ‘designerly’ interaction analysis of one important aspect of collaborative design activities: the participatory structures.

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The Role Of !Ction In Experiments Within Design, Art And Architecture, Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen, Poul Rind Christensen Jun 2013

The Role Of !Ction In Experiments Within Design, Art And Architecture, Eva Knutz, Thomas Markussen, Poul Rind Christensen

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This paper offers a typology for understanding design fiction as a new approach in design research. The typology allows design researchers to explain design fictions according to 5 criteria: (1) “What if scenarios” as the basic construal principle of design fiction; (2) the manifestation of critique; (3) design aims; (4) materializations and forms; and (5) the aesthetic of design fictions. The typology is premised on the idea that fiction may integrate with reality in many different ways in design experiments. The explanatory power of the typology is exemplified through the analyses of 6 case projects.

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Digital Lace: Procedurally Created Design, Ellen Schofield Jun 2013

Digital Lace: Procedurally Created Design, Ellen Schofield

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Digital Lace is a set of laser-cut paper panels that explores the intersection of intentional decisionmaking and computer-created randomness. The project uses a set of illustrated symbols, a computer program that randomly places the symbols and rearranges them based on a simple algorithm, and laser cut paper panels that are created from the computer-generated file. The final pieces exemplify the kind of modular design present in digital design while celebrating the materiality and tactile quality of traditional art.

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Spherical Harmonics: Experiments In 3d Printed Ceramic Form, Jonathan Keep Jun 2013

Spherical Harmonics: Experiments In 3d Printed Ceramic Form, Jonathan Keep

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This research is twofold – first it is about exploring the mathematical shape of Spherical Harmonics in computer code to extend the vocabulary of ceramic form. Secondly to develop techniques to 3D print these computers generated forms using DIY 3D ceramic printing techniques.

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Lines & Models. Embodied Drawing Acts, Judith Marlen Dobler Jun 2013

Lines & Models. Embodied Drawing Acts, Judith Marlen Dobler

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Lines & Models is a ongoing series of analogue, digital and hybrid drawing experiments. The project explores tacit approaches to sketching and drawing by experiments using the body as a drawing tool. In the research project, theory and practice are closely linked. The experiments serve as drawing artifacts and as material for reflections in design research. In this context, the project evolved into an investigation about the involvement of the body while drawing and sketching, and how the knowledge gained can be visualized.

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Aesthetic Experimentations On Ceramic Materials, Priska Falin Jun 2013

Aesthetic Experimentations On Ceramic Materials, Priska Falin

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Aesthetics like sound of ceramics is common in the context of making but not usually presence when perceiving an object. Most of the material aesthetics are knowledge of the maker and happens during the process of making. These aesthetics are potential material for artistic use. Focusing on the aesthetics of the ceramic materials I try to develop new solutions in the context of art. These experimentations are the beginning of a research where the goal is to bring out new artistic potentials from ceramic materials. The used raw materials are fluxes, feldspar, quartz, colemanite, cobalt oxide and copper oxide. To …

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Intelligent Clothes For Everyday Fashion, Marie Olofsen Jun 2013

Intelligent Clothes For Everyday Fashion, Marie Olofsen

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What are the reasons that wearables have not caught on and why do we hardly see these new aesthetic and functional expressions outside exhibitions, conferences, and stage performances? I propose that one reason is the aesthetic expression of wearables. Prototypes and commercially available wearables tend to be aesthetically and material wise quite far from the aesthetics and the material (fabric) of the clothes we normally wear. Many wearabes e.g. use LEDs as an aesthetic expression, which, however beautiful it might look, is quite far from what everyday clothes look and feel like, seeing that everyday clothes are mostly based on …

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Built Drawings, D. Scott Jun 2013

Built Drawings, D. Scott

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Digital fabrication technologies have the ability to confound ideas of control and indeterminacy. Apt to produce sterile and “perfect” forms, computergenerated constructs are finding their home within art and design communities-perhaps as mediator between concept and product. Although laser cutters are commonly employed to provide precision and controlled outcomes, I experiment with the indeterminate visual and structural potential in material layering and laser cut drawings on/in surfaces in order to better understand the potential of the tool and its tangential applications.

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Abort N' Go: Designing For Women’S Right To An Autonomous Abortion, Cristine Sundbom Jun 2013

Abort N' Go: Designing For Women’S Right To An Autonomous Abortion, Cristine Sundbom

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ABORT ‘n GO is a design project within the crossing boundaries of critical design and industrial design. The aim of this project was to investigate and problematise the contemporary discourse on abortion in Sweden by using design as a discussion tool. (Sundbom, 2009) The design concept, a home a abortion product, is based upon conducted in-depht interviews and a study by Anneli Kero. (2005) Keros study concludes that 67%, ie. the majority of women felt a relief after the abortion, but that they didn’t feel free to express positive feelings. (Kero, 2005) The abortion discourse in Sweden is problematic since …

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Thinking Through Drawing: Sites Of Exchange, Belinda Mitchell, Trish Bould Jun 2013

Thinking Through Drawing: Sites Of Exchange, Belinda Mitchell, Trish Bould

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Drawing is like note taking it creates an embodied dialogue between thought, hand and paper, it makes explicit the way we think and view the world from our disciplinary perspective and our human experience; it creates an active engagement between ourselves and the world. This work uses drawing as a site of exchange to document a conversation between a visual artist, a spatial interior designer, and archaeologist. The conversation was notated through diagrams, written notes, photography and drawing. The work opens up practice based methods through the to and fro of conversations to reimagine representations of interior space.

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Bedtime Stories: Weaving Traditions Into Digital Technologies, Kristi Kuusk, Geert Langereis, Oscar Tomico Jun 2013

Bedtime Stories: Weaving Traditions Into Digital Technologies, Kristi Kuusk, Geert Langereis, Oscar Tomico

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Bedtime Stories is a proposal for a long-lasting - environmentally, economically and societally sustainable smart textile service. It is a set of woven bed linen with images that can be recognized by a custom made fairy-tale application. This new way of story creation is an opportunity to share personal experiences and pass that wisdom through generations. Therefore contributing to a better quality of life. Bedtime Stories is part of a research-throughdesign project. It involves crafts (methods and values) in the environmental load of textiles and garments production, selling, wearing and disposing area. Multiple iterations of Bedtime Stories gives insight into …

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Energy Babble, Tobie Kerridge, Liliana Ovale, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Alex Wilkie Jun 2013

Energy Babble, Tobie Kerridge, Liliana Ovale, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Alex Wilkie

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Energy Babble is something like an internet radio appliance, designed for domestic and public spaces and dedicated to the topic of energy demand reduction. The devices are networked, drawing content from online sources and allowing responses using a built-in microphone.

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An Architecturally Bricolaged Narrative Of Transit, Annelies De Smet Jun 2013

An Architecturally Bricolaged Narrative Of Transit, Annelies De Smet

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Nordes2013-exhibition gives me the opportunity to present a part of my on-going PHD research. The research project ‘Wandering off in the urban: to move towards being moved’ is practice based, experimental and situated on the intersection of architecture and visual art. Through the production of multisensory impressions I wonder how we can set up a dialogue with that spatio-temporal entity, what we call ‘the environment’, that subjects us to an -all too often unnoticed- palimpsest of spheres. For Nordes2013- exhibition I will present part of an artistic/design communication-model that includes the communication of its reflections on: how to deal in …

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Typinglot, Atif Akin Jun 2013

Typinglot, Atif Akin

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TypingLot is an ongoing project about urban typography. Project consists of a collection of type photographs showcased online at http:// typinglot.com and a software which allows its users to typeset by using the letters in this collection. There are more than thousand type photographs in the collection taken in urban environments mostly in the New York and New Jersey area. New Orleans, San Francisco, Helsinki, Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir are some other cities happen to be presented with a small number of types in this collection. TypingLot enrolls amateur type design in a serious manner, thus acknowledging that society’s visual …

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Vigour: Smart Textile Services To Support Rehabilitation, Martijn Ten Bhömer, Oscar Tomico, Caroline Hummels Jun 2013

Vigour: Smart Textile Services To Support Rehabilitation, Martijn Ten Bhömer, Oscar Tomico, Caroline Hummels

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“Vigour” is a garment that shows the possibilities of smart textile services for geriatric rehabilitation exercises. It is the result of a collaborative design process between a design researcher, three therapists, an eldercare manager, a textile developer and an embedded systems designer. Vigour embodies the knowledge that was accumulated during the collaborative design process. We contribute to the theme of experimentation in design research by showing the value of experimentation in a participatory setting through the iterations leading to the final garment. Further, we will briefly describe three of the steps that lead to the final prototype.

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Committee, Review Committee, Venue Copenhagen, Venue Malmö, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson Jun 2013

Committee, Review Committee, Venue Copenhagen, Venue Malmö, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson, Eva Brandt, Pelle Ehn, Troels Degn Johansson

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General Chairs; Program Chairs; Exhibition Charis; Workshop Chairs; Doctoral Consortium Chairs; Review Committee; Venue Copenhagen; Venue Malmö

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Discursive Structures Of Informal Critique In An Hci Design Studio, Colin Gray Jun 2013

Discursive Structures Of Informal Critique In An Hci Design Studio, Colin Gray

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Critique has long been considered a benchmark of design education and practice, both as a way to elicit feedback about design artifacts in the process of production and as a high-stakes assessment tool in academia. In this study, I investigate a specific form of critique between peers that emerges organically in the design studio apart from coursework or guidance of a professor. Based on intensive interviews and observations, this informal peer critique appears to elicit the design judgment of the individual designer in explicit ways, encouraging peers to follow new paths in their design process, while also verbalizing oftenimplicit design …

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Workshop: Playful Design For Alzheimer’S Disease, Hester Anderiesen, Laura Eggermont Jun 2013

Workshop: Playful Design For Alzheimer’S Disease, Hester Anderiesen, Laura Eggermont

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This workshop aims to bridge the gap between game-, and product design and the theoretical knowledge of the field of neuropsychology. During the workshop we will design playful experiences to stimulate older persons with Alzheimer’s disease, in order to delay disease progression. Knowledge concerning the progressive course of neuropathology of the disease can substantially contribute to the design of suitable games, or playful products, for this user group. In view of the increasing population of older persons with Alzheimer’s disease, the design of relevant games or playful products by well-informed designers will benefit this group and is urgently needed.

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