Printer Pals: experience-centered design to support agency for people with dementia

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2019-05
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Foley, Sarah
Welsh, Daniel
Pantidi, Nadia
Morrissey, Kellie
Nappey, Tom
McCarthy, John
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Whereas there have been significant improvements in the quality of care provided for people with dementia, limited attention to the importance for people with dementia being enabled to make positive social contributions within care home contexts can restrict their sense of agency. In this paper we describe the design and deployment of 'Printer Pals' a receipt-based print media device, which encourages social contribution and agency within a care home environment. The design followed a two-year ethnography, from which the need for highlighting participation and supporting agency for residents within the care home became clear. The residents use of Printer Pals mediated participation in a number of different ways, such as engaging with the technology itself, offering shared experiences and participating in co-constructive and meaningful ways, each of which is discussed. We conclude with a series of design consideration to support agentic and caring interactions through inclusive design practices.
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Dementia , Person-centered care , Media and technology , Experience-centered design
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Foley, S., Welsh, D., Pantidi, N., Morrissey, K., Nappey, T. and McCarthy, J. (2019) ‘Printer Pals: experience-centered design to support agency for people with dementia’, CHI 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, 4-9 May, Paper 404 (13pp). doi: 10.1145/3290605.3300634
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© 2019, the Authors. Publication rights licensed to ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in CHI 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300634