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Assistive Media for Well-being

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HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia

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Personal digital media such as photos, music and films play a pervasive part in contemporary life by helping us to remember the past, communicate with each other and represent our identity to others. In this chapter, we explore the value of such media for supporting well-being in older age, drawing on concepts from literatures on art, reminiscence and music therapy. Theoretically, we argue for a new category of assistive technologies involving media creation and consumption to enhance well-being. We propose a framework for understanding and designing such assistive media systems which highlights the interaction between media item, author and audience. This framework is then illustrated through early attempts to explore a new kind of digital story therapy for people with dementia in a residential care setting. We conclude with recommendations for the design of future ‘assistive media’ systems and experiences that might enhance not only the lives of people with dementia, but also those around them.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We distinguish this definition from two previous uses of the term ‘assistive media’ to refer to a particular internet-based audio reading service and a German research project on assistance within human-computer interaction: https://www.assistivemedia.org/Assistive_Media/Welcome.html, https://www.leuphana.de/en/research-centers/cdc/research/assistive-media.html.

  2. 2.

    https://tovertafel.co.uk.

  3. 3.

    https://www.remindmecare.com.

  4. 4.

    https://www.unforgettable.org/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.interactiveme.org.uk.

  6. 6.

    https://www.virtue.io/lookback/.

  7. 7.

    http://digitaleconomytoolkit.org/com-phone/.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by two FAPESP visiting scholarships to Paula Castro (2016/10982-3) and Isabela Zaine (2017/09549-6), and by the University of Surrey and FAPESP through a UK-Brazil SPRINT network grant on Assistive Media for Health and Wellbeing in Ageing (2016/50489-4). We also thank participants in the Brazilian case study for their time, activity and insights into mobile digital storytelling, and Rens Brankaert, Gail Jennings, Amanda Lazar and Anne Marie Piper for discussions of their related work.

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Frohlich, D.M. et al. (2020). Assistive Media for Well-being. In: Brankaert, R., Kenning, G. (eds) HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32835-1_12

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