Getting Closer, Empathising and Understanding: Setting the Stage for a Co-design Project with People with Dementia

Getting Closer, Empathising and Understanding: Setting the Stage for a Co-design Project with People with Dementia

This paper discusses the initial work of a doctoral research project that explores how communication design can enable people with dementia and their social circle to codesign strategies to communicate. The ethnographic exercise in two care institutions and a consequent design intervention are descr...

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Main Authors: Rita Maldonado Branco, Joana Quental, Óscar Ribeiro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Scuola IaD 2015-10-01
Series:Interaction Design and Architecture(s)
Subjects:
Communication design
Dementia care
Design anthropology
Participatory design
Online Access:http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/doc/26_7.pdf
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spelling doaj-698a879045cd406a96e3f09b52bb1a9b2020-11-25T02:41:55ZengScuola IaDInteraction Design and Architecture(s)1826-97452283-29982015-10-0126114131Getting Closer, Empathising and Understanding: Setting the Stage for a Co-design Project with People with DementiaRita Maldonado Branco0Joana Quental1Óscar Ribeiro2Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture (ID+), PortugalDepartment of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro, PortugalInstitute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, PortugalThis paper discusses the initial work of a doctoral research project that explores how communication design can enable people with dementia and their social circle to codesign strategies to communicate. The ethnographic exercise in two care institutions and a consequent design intervention are described, and its process deconstructed: approaching institutions and participants, developing empathy and understanding towards configuring participation, and defining next stages of research. This study draws from approaches related to Design Anthropology and Participatory Design, which are intertwined and mutually influential, reinforcing their importance in developing a design project for and with people.http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/doc/26_7.pdfCommunication designDementia careDesign anthropologyParticipatory design
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Joana Quental
Óscar Ribeiro
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Getting Closer, Empathising and Understanding: Setting the Stage for a Co-design Project with People with Dementia
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Communication design
Dementia care
Design anthropology
Participatory design
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Joana Quental
Óscar Ribeiro
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title_short Getting Closer, Empathising and Understanding: Setting the Stage for a Co-design Project with People with Dementia
title_full Getting Closer, Empathising and Understanding: Setting the Stage for a Co-design Project with People with Dementia
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series Interaction Design and Architecture(s)
issn 1826-9745
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publishDate 2015-10-01
description This paper discusses the initial work of a doctoral research project that explores how communication design can enable people with dementia and their social circle to codesign strategies to communicate. The ethnographic exercise in two care institutions and a consequent design intervention are described, and its process deconstructed: approaching institutions and participants, developing empathy and understanding towards configuring participation, and defining next stages of research. This study draws from approaches related to Design Anthropology and Participatory Design, which are intertwined and mutually influential, reinforcing their importance in developing a design project for and with people.
topic Communication design
Dementia care
Design anthropology
Participatory design
url http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/doc/26_7.pdf
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