All Outputs (20)

The power of a HUG: Implementation of assistive technology across a health board (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

HUG, a soft comforter specifically designed for individuals with advanced dementia, was developed by the HUG by LAUGH team at Cardiff Metropolitan University. With weighted arms and legs, a soft body, and a simulated beating heart, HUG aims to provid... Read More about The power of a HUG: Implementation of assistive technology across a health board.

A cross-cultural exploration of smart home energy devices and community well-being (2023)
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This study explores the role of smart home energy devices in Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) and their impact on culture and community well-being. Through a comprehensive seven-step methodology, we analyze the features of HEMS that enhance indi... Read More about A cross-cultural exploration of smart home energy devices and community well-being.

CURIOs for care: Designing physical prompts for research (2023)
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As design researchers, we are drawn towards creating tangible artifacts. The CURIOs for Care project embraces this appeal of making physical artefacts as a means of inquiry and as a creative tool to invite stories about individuals' experiences with... Read More about CURIOs for care: Designing physical prompts for research.

Compassionate design: HUGs on prescription (2022)
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There is a growing need for well-designed innovative products and services for people affected by dementia. Governments and charities are offering a range of business support to encourage the development of commercial products to address this need. T... Read More about Compassionate design: HUGs on prescription.

Compassionate Design: A methodology for advanced dementia (2020)
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Predicted increases in the numbers of people living into the advanced stages of dementia pose a significant problem for health and care providers around the world. Finding ways to ameliorate the distressing dementia symptoms of anxiety and depression... Read More about Compassionate Design: A methodology for advanced dementia.

Open doors: Designing playful objects for dementia (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This design-based submission comprises a prototype design for a playful object for use in dementia care and the ‘Open Doors’documentary video that explains the underpinning research collaboration. LUMA is a hand-held playful object, designed for peop... Read More about Open doors: Designing playful objects for dementia.

Laugh empowered PSCI evaluation and making: Playful objects for wellbeing, emotional regulation and engagement for dementia and post stroke cognitive impairment (2019)
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Designing folding interventions for positive moments (2019)
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People living in the advanced stages of dementia are often confined to a bed or chair and spend many hours unoccupied. Hand-based activities that are ‘in the moment’ and provide stimulation have the potential to relieve agitation, reduce stress and p... Read More about Designing folding interventions for positive moments.

Designing for playfulness through compassion: Design for advanced dementia (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The LAUGH project is a recently completed international three-year UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)funded design research project. Outcomes from the research include a collection of playful objects designed to support the wellbeing of peo... Read More about Designing for playfulness through compassion: Design for advanced dementia.

Compassionate creativity: Co-design for advanced dementia (2018)
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One of the most pressing challenges facing designers today is how to create appropriate, useful and safe designs for people living with advanced dementia. Dementia is a complex disease that presents and progresses differently for each individual. Thi... Read More about Compassionate creativity: Co-design for advanced dementia.

Evaluation or ‘anecdote’? Understanding the impact of design (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Designers are increasingly engaging in participatory co-design approaches to understand the needs and wants of the people who will engage with the artefacts produced. These approaches are particularly relevant for design that focuses on social change... Read More about Evaluation or ‘anecdote’? Understanding the impact of design.

Design for dementia: Making spaces for uncertainty (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper presents research undertaken as part of the LAUGH project to explore design processes and design of hand held playful objects for people living with advanced dementia. A series of six co-design workshops were carried out with experts in re... Read More about Design for dementia: Making spaces for uncertainty.

How do we create attractive personalised and customised care? (2017)
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This position paper contends that care can only be useful when it understands the personal context of care and can be shaped to accommodate individual needs. To design with care and to care through design we need to develop a designerly empathic atti... Read More about How do we create attractive personalised and customised care?.

Designing for wellbeing in late stage dementia (2016)
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This paper presents research that is developing new ways of supporting the wellbeing of people with late stage dementia through the development of playful objects. The LAUGH project is an international AHRC funded design research project that is usin... Read More about Designing for wellbeing in late stage dementia.

LAUGH: Designing to enhance positive emotion for people living with dementia (2016)
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Dementia comprises a number of degenerative neurological diseases. It is a complex condition and each person’s experience and symptoms are different. There is a growing awareness of the need for well-designed products and services to assist with deme... Read More about LAUGH: Designing to enhance positive emotion for people living with dementia.

In the moment: Designing for late stage dementia (2016)
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This paper presents international multidisciplinary design research to support the wellbeing of people living with dementia. The LAUGH project aims to develop playful artefacts that will contribute to non-pharmacological personalised approaches to ca... Read More about In the moment: Designing for late stage dementia.

Designing playful objects to support subjective wellbeing for people living with dementia (2016)
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This poster presents research that is investigating the development of playful objects for people living with advanced dementia. The Ludic Artifacts Using Gesture and Haptics (LAUGH) research is a three-year international interdisciplinary project, b... Read More about Designing playful objects to support subjective wellbeing for people living with dementia.

Designing for access – young disabled people as active participants influencing design processes (2005)
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Cross-modal design research (2005)
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Sensory impairment is usually treated as a negative condition that requires inclusive design for correction or compensation. However, such impairment in one sense should be seen positively in terms of a greater awareness, and use, of the other senses... Read More about Cross-modal design research.

Multi-sensory memorabilia (2005)
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