LiveNature: ambient display and social robot-facilitated multi-sensory engagement for people with dementia

Yuan Feng; Suihuai Yu; Dirk van de Mortel; Emilia I. Barakova; Jun Hu; Matthias G.W.M. Rauterberg

doi:10.1145/3322276.3322331

LiveNature: ambient display and social robot-facilitated multi-sensory engagement for people with dementia

Yuan Feng
, Suihuai Yu
, Dirk van de Mortel
, Emilia I. Barakova
, Jun Hu
, Matthias G.W.M. Rauterberg

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Abstract

The wellbeing of people with dementia in long-term care facilities is hindered, as they spend most of their time alone with little engagement in meaningful activities and an absence o f pleasant senso r y stimula tion. We designed an interactive system called LiveNature that adopts a novel combined approach involving an ambient display unit and an interactive robotic sheep, to offer long-term access and to engage people with dementia in long-term care facilities in rewarding experiences. LiveNature aims to provide holistic multi-sensory engagement to provoke positive emotions, increase social bonding, and restore attentiveness and communication. The design was implemented within a Dutch nursing home. An evaluation of the user experience and the effectiveness of the design was conducted in a reallife setting with nine participants, five family members, two caregivers and fo ur volu nteers, using o b servatio nal rating scales and semi-structured interviews. The results of the rating scales and the findings from qualitative data showed evidence of enhanced positive engagement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	1321-1333
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5850-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322331
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2019
Event	2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019 - San Diego, CA, USA, San Diego, United States Duration: 23 Jun 2019 → 28 Jun 2019 https://dis2019.com/

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Conference	2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019
Abbreviated title	DIS '19
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	23/06/19 → 28/06/19
Internet address	https://dis2019.com/

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The authors would like to acknowledge all participants from Vitalis for their contributions and for sharing their thoughts. We also thank the facilitator Famke Boschman for her involvement in the user study and data analysis. This study is partly sponsored by China Scholarship Council.

Keywords

Ambient displays
Long-term care
Multi-sensory stimulation
People with dementia
Social robots

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Feng, Y., Yu, S., van de Mortel, D., Barakova, E. I., Hu, J., & Rauterberg, M. G. W. M. (2019). LiveNature: ambient display and social robot-facilitated multi-sensory engagement for people with dementia. In DIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1321-1333). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322331

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Feng, Y, Yu, S, van de Mortel, D, Barakova, EI , Hu, J & Rauterberg, MGWM 2019, LiveNature: ambient display and social robot-facilitated multi-sensory engagement for people with dementia. in DIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, pp. 1321-1333, 2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019, San Diego, United States, 23/06/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3322331

LiveNature: ambient display and social robot-facilitated multi-sensory engagement for people with dementia. / Feng, Yuan; Yu, Suihuai; van de Mortel, Dirk et al.
DIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2019. p. 1321-1333.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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