Co-Designing Smart Home Technology with People with Dementia or Parkinson's Disease

Bourazeri, A. and Stumpf, S. (2018) Co-Designing Smart Home Technology with People with Dementia or Parkinson's Disease. In: 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '18), Oslo, Norway, 29 Sep - 03 Oct 2018, pp. 609-621. ISBN 9781450364379 (doi: 10.1145/3240167.3240197)

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Abstract

Involving users is crucial to designing technology successfully, especially for vulnerable users in health and social care, yet detailed descriptions and critical reflections on the co-design process, techniques and methods are rare. This paper introduces the PERCEPT (PERrsona-CEntred Participatory Technology) approach for the co-design process and we analyse and discuss the lessons learned for each step in this process. We applied PERCEPT in a project to develop a smart home toolset that will allow a person living with early stage dementia or Parkinson's to plan, monitor and self-manage his or her life and well-being more effectively. We present a set of personas which were co-created with people and applied throughout the project in the co-design process. The approach presented in this paper will enable researchers and designers to better engage with target user groups in co-design and point to considerations to be made at each step for vulnerable users.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Stumpf, Dr Simone
Authors: Bourazeri, A., and Stumpf, S.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
ISBN:9781450364379

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