@inproceedings{9d9e91c9a1404c0ebd68ba72fcdf2308,
title = "LivingMoments: Bespoke Social Communication for People living with Dementia and their Relatives",
abstract = "Dementia can hinder a person's ability to engage with their relatives. Existing communication technologies do not support people with dementia in maintaining social contact since they are not designed for their abilities and needs. This paper presents LivingMoments, a communication system that enables the engagement of people with dementia with their relatives. The system uses digital and physical interaction design considering people's different and changing abilities. Over a six-week field evaluation of LivingMoments, involving six participants living at home with different levels of dementia, we collected qualitative and quantitative data about the experiences of them and their relatives. Based on the data analysis, we found the need to adapt communication to individual abilities, lowering barriers through content calibration and establishing habits for continuous use. We evinced a set of design considerations for technologies to support a lasting engagement of people with dementia with different and changing abilities.",
keywords = "Dementia, Dementia dynamics, Design, Experience, Research product, Social technology",
author = "Myrte Thoolen and Francesca Toso and Peek, {Sebastiaan T.M.} and Yuan Lu and Rens Brankaert",
note = "Funding Information: The Create Health Program of ZonMw funded this work as part of the {\textquoteleft}Dementia Dynamics in Design{\textquoteright} project with project number 443001117. The project was also partly funded by care organization Pleyade. The authors would like to sincerely thank all participating families, relatives, and care organization Pleyade for taking their time and making this research possible. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Owner/Author.; 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022, CHI '22 ; Conference date: 30-04-2022 Through 05-05-2022",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1145/3491102.3517430",
language = "English",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
booktitle = "CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}