%0 Conference Paper %1 pu13 %A Pusch, A. %A Naumann, A. B. %A Brandt, M. %A Hurtienne, J. %B Include %D 2013 %K assistive dementia environment people with %T Towards designing an assistive environment for people with dementia %U http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/10030030/publications/2013a_Towards_designing_a_long-term_assistive_environment_for_people_with_dementia.pdf %X We report on the analyses of two interview studies conducted with people with dementia and their carers in the UK and in Germany. Results show that technological solutions alone would not be successful, if they did not take individual and social contexts into account. We develop a number of recommendations one of which is that we should focus more on the world as it is perceived by people with dementia instead of how it really is. We propose the concept of “benevolent manipulation” which, although assistive, helps to subtly remove at least some of the limitations people with dementia experience. We further found that the principal aim should be to develop assistive technology that can be adapted / tailored, intuitively used, does not feel intrusive, and at best disappears as any device, tool or aid that need to be operated or learned. To ensure consistent functioning across all supportive entities and to guarantee optimal support, we argue that we need a larger framing in the sense of an intelligent assistive environment. We provide detailed conceptual considerations regarding architecture and behaviour of such a long-term support system.

@inproceedings{pu13, abstract = {We report on the analyses of two interview studies conducted with people with dementia and their carers in the UK and in Germany. Results show that technological solutions alone would not be successful, if they did not take individual and social contexts into account. We develop a number of recommendations one of which is that we should focus more on the world as it is perceived by people with dementia instead of how it really is. We propose the concept of “benevolent manipulation” which, although assistive, helps to subtly remove at least some of the limitations people with dementia experience. We further found that the principal aim should be to develop assistive technology that can be adapted / tailored, intuitively used, does not feel intrusive, and at best disappears as any device, tool or aid that need to be operated or learned. To ensure consistent functioning across all supportive entities and to guarantee optimal support, we argue that we need a larger framing in the sense of an intelligent assistive environment. We provide detailed conceptual considerations regarding architecture and behaviour of such a long-term support system.}, added-at = {2016-11-07T15:14:09.000+0100}, author = {Pusch, A. and Naumann, A. B. and Brandt, M. and Hurtienne, J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24cf0e2b0fa573e2ee296938e3e510535/michael.brandt}, booktitle = {Include}, interhash = {07def9c0b791b3052758ae7b5c160ac2}, intrahash = {4cf0e2b0fa573e2ee296938e3e510535}, keywords = {assistive dementia environment people with}, timestamp = {2016-11-07T15:14:09.000+0100}, title = {Towards designing an assistive environment for people with dementia}, url = {http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/10030030/publications/2013a_Towards_designing_a_long-term_assistive_environment_for_people_with_dementia.pdf}, year = 2013 }