Designing an interface usable by people with dementia

Norman Alm; Richard Dye; Gary Gowans; Jim Campbell; Arlene Astell; Maggie Ellis

doi:10.1145/957205.957237

Designing an interface usable by people with dementia

Norman Alm^*, Richard Dye, Gary Gowans, Jim Campbell, Arlene Astell, Maggie Ellis

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Abstract

Caring for people with dementia will be one of the major challenges of the 21^st century. Advancing technology may offer ways to augment and supplement human care, if it is sensitively designed with the needs of potential users always taken into account. Developing an interface that a person with dementia can make sense of and use is a difficult goal. Beginning to meet this challenge is one aspect of a programme we have embarked on to develop a multi-media system that can be used to help people with dementia communicate better with others. Reminiscence work with people with dementia is a valuable tool for enabling them to participate meaningfully in conversations. We are developing a system which uses multimedia technology as an effective vehicle for delivering reminiscence stimulus and thus conversation support for people with dementia. Multi-media, dementia, reminiscence.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability, CCU 2003
Publisher	ACM
Pages	156-157
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	158113701X, 9781581137019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/957205.957237
Publication status	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability, CCU 2003 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 10 Nov 2003 → 11 Nov 2003

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Conference	Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability, CCU 2003
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	10/11/03 → 11/11/03

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Alm, N, Dye, R, Gowans, G, Campbell, J, Astell, A & Ellis, M 2003, Designing an interface usable by people with dementia. in Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability, CCU 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability, CCU 2003, ACM, pp. 156-157, Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability, CCU 2003, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 10/11/03. https://doi.org/10.1145/957205.957237

Designing an interface usable by people with dementia. / Alm, Norman; Dye, Richard; Gowans, Gary et al.
Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability, CCU 2003. ACM, 2003. p. 156-157 (Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Universal Usability, CCU 2003).

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