Mariana's Song: Materializing Personhood through Non-Linear Multisensory Experiences Designed for People Living with Advanced Dementia

Henry Collingham; Jayne Wallace; Poppy Crawshaw; Liv Hunt

doi:10.1145/3643834.3660724

Mariana's Song: Materializing Personhood through Non-Linear Multisensory Experiences Designed for People Living with Advanced Dementia

Henry Collingham, Jayne Wallace, Poppy Crawshaw, Liv Hunt

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Abstract

Mariana's Song is a multisensory experience for care home residents unable to take part in regular activities. Designed to support Personhood through a blended physical/digital installation, it is a user-led experience, centered around video and closely facilitated in concert with expert arts practitioners. The narrative and duration of the interaction is guided by each resident, unique on each viewing, which includes ‘sensory props’ that guide each resident's experience and stimulate the senses to create a transformative space. We provide a worked example of digital, physical, and spatial design decisions taken to reinforce Personhood for residents with advanced dementia. We present learnings from 106 sessions, facilitated one to one between Artists and residents. We contribute to the literature around designing to Materialize Personhood, informed by Kitwood's 12 key characteristics, as well as Parametricism, a novel approach to non-linear experiences, to support the unique needs of people with advanced dementia.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Editors	Anna Vallgårda, Li Jönsson, Jonas Fritsch, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Christopher A. Le Dantec
Place of Publication	New York, US
Publisher	ACM
Pages	819-843
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400705830
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660724
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2024
Event	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS): why design? - IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 1 Jul 2024 → 5 Jul 2024 https://dis.acm.org/2024/

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
Abbreviated title	DIS 2024
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	1/07/24 → 5/07/24
Internet address	https://dis.acm.org/2024/

Keywords

Advanced Dementia
Dementia
Kitwood Interactions
Materializing Personhood
Multisensory
Non-Linear
Person-Centred
Personhood
Timalation

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Collingham, H., Wallace, J., Crawshaw, P., & Hunt, L. (2024). Mariana's Song: Materializing Personhood through Non-Linear Multisensory Experiences Designed for People Living with Advanced Dementia. In A. Vallgårda, L. Jönsson, J. Fritsch, S. Fdili Alaoui, & C. A. Le Dantec (Eds.), DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 819-843). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660724

Collingham, Henry ; Wallace, Jayne ; Crawshaw, Poppy et al. / Mariana's Song: Materializing Personhood through Non-Linear Multisensory Experiences Designed for People Living with Advanced Dementia. DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. editor / Anna Vallgårda ; Li Jönsson ; Jonas Fritsch ; Sarah Fdili Alaoui ; Christopher A. Le Dantec. New York, US : ACM, 2024. pp. 819-843

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Collingham, H , Wallace, J, Crawshaw, P & Hunt, L 2024, Mariana's Song: Materializing Personhood through Non-Linear Multisensory Experiences Designed for People Living with Advanced Dementia. in A Vallgårda, L Jönsson, J Fritsch, S Fdili Alaoui & CA Le Dantec (eds), DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ACM, New York, US, pp. 819-843, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1/07/24. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660724

Mariana's Song: Materializing Personhood through Non-Linear Multisensory Experiences Designed for People Living with Advanced Dementia. / Collingham, Henry ; Wallace, Jayne; Crawshaw, Poppy et al.
DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ed. / Anna Vallgårda; Li Jönsson; Jonas Fritsch; Sarah Fdili Alaoui; Christopher A. Le Dantec. New York, US: ACM, 2024. p. 819-843.

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Collingham H , Wallace J, Crawshaw P, Hunt L. Mariana's Song: Materializing Personhood through Non-Linear Multisensory Experiences Designed for People Living with Advanced Dementia. In Vallgårda A, Jönsson L, Fritsch J, Fdili Alaoui S, Le Dantec CA, editors, DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York, US: ACM. 2024. p. 819-843 doi: 10.1145/3643834.3660724

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