Enabling self, intimacy and a sense of home in dementia: An enquiry into design in a hospital setting

Jayne Wallace; Anja Thieme; Gavin Wood; Guy Schofield; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1145/2207676.2208654

Enabling self, intimacy and a sense of home in dementia: An enquiry into design in a hospital setting

Jayne Wallace, Anja Thieme, Gavin Wood, Guy Schofield, Patrick Olivier

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Abstract

Design and digital technologies to support a sense of self and human relationships for people living with dementia are both urgently needed. We present an enquiry into design for dementia facilitated by a public art commission for an adult mental health unit in a hospital in the UK. The interactive art piece was informed by the notion of personhood in dementia that foregrounds the person's social being and interpersonal relationships as sites where self is maintained and constructed. How clients, clients' family members and staff used the piece is reported and insights related to the notions of home, intimacy, possessions and self are presented. The art piece served as window on both dementia and the institution leading to a number of insights and implications for design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference Proceedings - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012
Pages	2629-2638
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208654
Publication status	Published - 24 May 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012 - Austin Convention Center, Austin, United States of America Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012 Conference number: 30th https://chi2012.acm.org/index.shtml

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Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012
Abbreviated title	CHI 2012
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Austin
Period	5/05/12 → 10/05/12
Internet address	https://chi2012.acm.org/index.shtml

Keywords

Dementia
Design
Dignity
Empathy
Home
Intimacy
Self

UN SDGs

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Wallace, J, Thieme, A, Wood, G, Schofield, G & Olivier, P 2012, Enabling self, intimacy and a sense of home in dementia: An enquiry into design in a hospital setting. in Conference Proceedings - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012. pp. 2629-2638, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012, Austin, Texas, United States of America, 5/05/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208654

Enabling self, intimacy and a sense of home in dementia: An enquiry into design in a hospital setting. / Wallace, Jayne; Thieme, Anja; Wood, Gavin et al.
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