Designing for everyday sounds at home with people with dementia and their partners

Maarten Houben; Rens Brankaert; Gail Kenning; Inge Bongers; Berry Eggen

doi:10.1145/3491102.3501993

Designing for everyday sounds at home with people with dementia and their partners

Maarten Houben, Rens Brankaert, Gail Kenning, Inge Bongers, Berry Eggen

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People with dementia and their caregivers aging in place have expressed the need for social, emotional, and recreational interventions at home. Listening to everyday sounds evokes memories and provides conversational cues to support social relations and elicit emotional responses for people with dementia. However, research has yet to explore how these meaningful experiences can be transferred into home settings. This paper presents the insights from our co-design study that involved three people with dementia and their partners in developing an interactive sound player for listening to everyday sounds at home. We report on the motivations of people with dementia and their caregivers to engage in meaningful sound-based activities at home and present the Tumbler as a prototype to foster initiative and agency in exploring familiar everyday sounds. We present design implications of how sound can enrich the everyday experiences of dementia by facilitating social and pleasurable moments at home.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	S. Barbosa, C. Lampe, D.A. Shamma, S. Drucker, J. Williamson, K. Yatani
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391573
ISBN (Print)	9781450391573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501993
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Keywords

DEMENTIA
DESIGN
everyday sounds
HOME
informal caregiver

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Houben, M., Brankaert, R., Kenning, G., Bongers, I., & Eggen, B. (2022). Designing for everyday sounds at home with people with dementia and their partners. In S. Barbosa, C. Lampe, D. A. Shamma, S. Drucker, J. Williamson, & K. Yatani (Eds.), CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-15). Article 514 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501993

Houben, Maarten ; Brankaert, Rens ; Kenning, Gail et al. / Designing for everyday sounds at home with people with dementia and their partners. CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / S. Barbosa ; C. Lampe ; D.A. Shamma ; S. Drucker ; J. Williamson ; K. Yatani. New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. pp. 1-15 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Houben, M, Brankaert, R, Kenning, G, Bongers, I & Eggen, B 2022, Designing for everyday sounds at home with people with dementia and their partners. in S Barbosa, C Lampe, DA Shamma, S Drucker, J Williamson & K Yatani (eds), CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 514, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501993

Designing for everyday sounds at home with people with dementia and their partners. / Houben, Maarten; Brankaert, Rens; Kenning, Gail et al.
CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / S. Barbosa; C. Lampe; D.A. Shamma; S. Drucker; J. Williamson; K. Yatani. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. p. 1-15 514 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Houben M, Brankaert R, Kenning G, Bongers I, Eggen B. Designing for everyday sounds at home with people with dementia and their partners. In Barbosa S, Lampe C, Shamma DA, Drucker S, Williamson J, Yatani K, editors, CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. 2022. p. 1-15. 514. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3491102.3501993

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