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People with dementia (PwD) often present verbal agitation such as cursing, screaming, and persistently complaining. Verbal agitation can impose mental distress on informal caregivers (e.g., family, friends), which may cause severe mental illnesses, such ...

The population of the world is continuously growing older, leading to more people with dementia who need support while living in their own home. Our RadioMe system was designed to adapt a live radio stream with reminders and music intervention for ...

Cognitive-physical exercises can reduce the progression of dementia. However, traditional methods often induce problems (e.g., lack of motivation), whereas the success of recent virtual reality (VR) exergames such as Beat Saber may provide a playful, ...

Caregivers of persons with dementia (PWD) experience higher rates of stress, social isolation, and poor mental and physical health compared to non-caregiving populations. There is a vital need for engaging, sustainable, and scalable resources to support ...

Physical Life Story Books are widely used as part of reminiscence interventions, where people with dementia (PWD) recount their life experiences and memories to family and caregivers supported by pictures. This paper reports the design of a tablet app, ...

The wellbeing of people with dementia in long-term care facilities is hindered, as they spend most of their time alone with little engagement in meaningful activities and an absence of pleasant sensory stimulation. We designed an interactive system ...

Before determining if an interaction with a social robot benefits the person with dementia (PwD), it is necessary to understand the process of acceptance of the robot by the PwD. Hence, we proposed strategies to facilitate the acceptance by PwD in real ...

A growing body of research is exploring the benefits of using digital media to engage people with difficulties due to ageing, including dementia. A simple, tablet-based game was developed with inputs from over 440 stakeholders including occupational ...

Reminiscence Therapy can act as an effective and conducive method for increasing the Quality of Life (QoL) of people with dementia (PwD) when implemented properly. In addition to non-digital approaches, digitally enhanced systems can be built to elicit ...

The number of people with dementia is rising every year, and it is getting more expensive to provide care for them in specially designed care centres. Furthermore, some people with dementia prefer to live independently, and to be accompanied by informal ...

People with dementia (PwD) experience behavioral and psychological symptoms, such as anxiety or aggression that can put them, or their caregivers, at risk. In this paper, we describe the results from a case study conducted to assess the viability of ...

This paper critically looks at the role of people with dementia (and their network) when involved in a participatory design (PD) process and the role of designers when involving a person with dementia (and their network). Two participatory projects (...

The Ambient Kitchen is a high fidelity prototype for exploring the design of pervasive computing algorithms and applications for everyday environments. The environment integrates data projectors, cameras, RFID tags and readers, object mounted ...

The paper sets out some requirements for the user interfaces of technologies that are to be used in the home. Each theme is illustrated with some of the current research being carried out at CUHTec. Interfaces for domestic technologies should be: Simple -...