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 Peter Schofield; Patrick Olivier

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 Peter Schofield, Patrick Olivier

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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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 ...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publication status	Published - 5 May 2012

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