Sentic: a tailored interface design for people with dementia to access music

Myrte Thoolen, Rens Brankaert, Yuan Lu

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    Abstract

    We investigated how a user interface could support people with dementia (PwD) in having personal and direct access to a music-playing device. Despite a growing interest in designing technology for people with dementia, personal and direct access to systems are not always considered. We introduce Sentic (Figure 1), an interface concept of a music player of which the user interface can be tailored to fit the ability of people with dementia. This paper reports briefly on insights from the design process of Sentic that was informed by workshop sessions with people with dementia. Then, the rationale behind Sentic is presented, and a realization of Sentic is proposed as an example of an alternative approach to design interfaces that can be tailored to the abilities of people with dementia.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDIS 2019 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
    Place of PublicationNew York
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
    Pages57-60
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-4503-6270-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 18 Jun 2019
    Event2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019 - San Diego, CA, USA, San Diego, United States
    Duration: 23 Jun 201928 Jun 2019
    https://dis2019.com/

    Conference

    Conference2019 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2019
    Abbreviated titleDIS '19
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CitySan Diego
    Period23/06/1928/06/19
    Internet address

    Keywords

    • Accessibility
    • Adaptable
    • Dementia
    • Music
    • Personalized
    • Tailored user interface
    • Tangible interaction

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