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TY - JOUR
T1 - Ageing playfully
T2 - a story of forgetting and remembering
AU - Lujan Escalante, Maria Alejandra
AU - Tsekleves, Emmanouil
AU - Bingley, Amanda Faith
AU - Gradinar, Adrian Ioan
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Design for Health on 10/03/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/24735132.2017.1295529
PY - 2017/3
Y1 - 2017/3
N2 - An increasing interest in exploring how digital innovation could support dementia care has been a leading research responding to e-health movements, from caregiving and medical perspectives. Little research has included perspectives of people with dementia; even fewer are concerned with the emotional side of the research experience per se. The aim of this case study is to open a space for a discussion of the impact that this process has on design researchers engaging in the area of dementia. Grounded in these two overlapping creative spaces, a methodology emerged that focused on adding design value to outcomes and to all stakeholders involved along the process. The Ageing Playfully project explored, through a series of playful workshops, the opportunities available for people with dementia to catalyse imagination and social interaction through co-design. Participating in Ageing Playfully were 12 co-designers with dementia, 2 healthcarers and 4 researchers from Lancaster University working in the areas of design, computer science and health studies. This paper recounts the experience of the design researchers as part of the team and constructs a narrative in which emerging methods together with personal experience are protagonists; a story that offers memories within the forgetful corners of the investigation.
AB - An increasing interest in exploring how digital innovation could support dementia care has been a leading research responding to e-health movements, from caregiving and medical perspectives. Little research has included perspectives of people with dementia; even fewer are concerned with the emotional side of the research experience per se. The aim of this case study is to open a space for a discussion of the impact that this process has on design researchers engaging in the area of dementia. Grounded in these two overlapping creative spaces, a methodology emerged that focused on adding design value to outcomes and to all stakeholders involved along the process. The Ageing Playfully project explored, through a series of playful workshops, the opportunities available for people with dementia to catalyse imagination and social interaction through co-design. Participating in Ageing Playfully were 12 co-designers with dementia, 2 healthcarers and 4 researchers from Lancaster University working in the areas of design, computer science and health studies. This paper recounts the experience of the design researchers as part of the team and constructs a narrative in which emerging methods together with personal experience are protagonists; a story that offers memories within the forgetful corners of the investigation.
KW - Ageing
KW - dementia
KW - co-design
KW - participatory design
KW - method story
KW - knowledge exchange
KW - researcher experience
U2 - 10.1080/24735132.2017.1295529
DO - 10.1080/24735132.2017.1295529
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1
SP - 134
EP - 145
JO - Design for Health
JF - Design for Health
SN - 2473-5132
IS - 1
ER -