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A Virtual Environment Gesture Interaction System for People with Dementia

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Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, page 225–230. New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (May 30, 2018)
DOI: 10.1145/3197391.3205440

Abstract

As dementia will most likely become an impactful challenge for our future society, it is imperative to maintain the well-being of the diverse group of people with dementia (PwD). Thus, appropriate interventions that effectively trigger identity-stabilizing memories, and at the same time encourage sensorimotor activities, have to be designed and implemented. To that end, we present a novel natural user interface (NUI) system combined with a reminiscence-provoking virtual 3D environment (VE). With it, PwD can delve into memories while interacting with the VE over dementia-fitted gestures. The results of the preliminary evaluations are promising, as they show that most PwD get immersed and cheerfully engage in gesture interactions after a short settling-in period.

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