Conversations and Creeds: Design, Well Being and Ageing Populations

HCI: Human Computer Interaction

Aging populations in 2050 one in three people will be over 65, one in ten people will be over 80

Assistive Technologies for Older People Warden Call Systems Fall Detectors Bed Occupancy Sensors Temperature Monitors

Accessibility, Inclusive Design, Universal Design Big button phones Large handle kitchen appliances Key fob door openers Prosthetics

Paro

Well Being: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." (WHO)

Well Being: - Positive emotion - Engagement - Relationships - Meaning and purpose - Accomplishment (Seligman 2011)

Many older people fear going into care more than death

1948 work houses abolished

Goya: Two Old People Eating Soup

What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools, And you keep on pissing yourself, and can't remember Who called this morning? Or that, if they only chose, They could alter things back to when they danced all night, Or went to their wedding, or sloped arms some September? Or do they fancy there's really been no change, And they've always behaved as if they were crippled or tight, Or sat through days of thin continuous dreaming Watching the light move? If they don't (and they can't), it's strange; Why aren't they screaming? Philip Larkin, The Old Fools

Tickets to Talk

Tickets to Be Silent

Yan Preston

Problems in Care Homes: financial, physical, psychological and social: solution is not technological

Web Window

Photostroller Bill Gaver, John Bowers, Andy Boucher, Nadine Jarvis

Local Reminiscence work can be very, very important, and not just for those with dementia. I would say it s important for staff because they need to see the person beyond the person that s sat in the chair now; this person s full and amazing life [...] So it s just looking beyond the shell of the person that they are now, and then letting them say, Do you know, actually we used to keep goats, or something random.

History I used to be a member of the Museum but there were too many steps My uncle was an engine driver from Sheffield

Nature Kate: What s that? MB: It s a chipmunk. Kate: That s pretty what s that? MB: They re insects. Kate: Ew. Creepycrawlies. MB moves the dial to Kate: That s a nice farmhouse. MB: The aurora borealis is Kate: What s that? Is that York Minster? MB: Yes. Kate: Is that the racecourse? They ve got new stands you know

Travel Elaine: Think there s places you ve neverbeen to. Nigel: Never wanted to go. Elaine: I ve been to a number of places. Nigel: I bet you have. Elaine: You re a cheeky devil.

Family Archie: How much do them cos? [...] I ve got money in the bank! [..] It s my wedding present.

Well Being Theory: - Positive emotion - Engagement - Relationships - Meaning and purpose - Accomplishment (Seligman 2011)

Poor Clares

Work We're not teaching, we're not nursing, we're not doing social work, we're not bringing up families, we're not working in factories, we're not doing any of those things. So our role has to be that we are standing in the presence of God all the time, and in doing that it has to bring [..] benefit to humanity. And, as I say, so many people do contact us to ask for prayer.

Meditation The order is an enclosed meditative order but the meditation is quite different to that of Buddhism which is concerned with the self and spiritual enlightenment. Meditative prayer for the poor clare sisters is outward looking and concerned with the world. Sister Peter described it as standing in the presence of God on behalf of those that couldn t do so themselves. They pray for the world.

Pertinence for us having news is not keeping in touch with what's going on, it's to keep the prayer pertinent to what's going on... I mean if there's an earthquake in Indonesia well if we're still praying for the situation in Northern Ireland

Unobtrusivity it s something that we might carry for five minutes, sometimes its something that we ll carry for the whole day. And sometimes if it s an ongoing thing it can carry on for day after day after day. And that for me is one of the beauties about having Goldie about how it s been done, about how they ve physically done the design for it because it fits in so, so well.

Humour Device: I feel like I should stop putting myself down.sister Matthew: [with some sarcasm] Do you? Yes, well very sensible. Device: Fears over missile build up in IranSister Matthew: This is what makes us all hold our breath. Device: Southern man beats his wife to death.sister Matthew: Oh no.device: I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright

Meaning So what s in our hearts and minds goes into God s presence[.]a lot of people either they don t know that God exists. Or they re agnostics. But we re there for all of them. We re here not just for ourselves but for everybody else as well.

Achievement but for me you have to know why you re doing that every day, because if you don t then to be honest you might just as well be in Asda packing the shelves as here sweeping the cloister, because you re not sweeping the cloister or whatever because you re sweeping the cloister. The cloisters need sweeping because we re here

Talk to me : Museum of Modern Art, New York

Prayer companion maintenance

Context is Crucial: one size does not fit all when designing for older people

This is not problem solving: the designs are explorations not solutions

Relationships and meaning: if the devices are successful it is perhaps because they support wellbeing.

Acknowledgements: Goldsmiths Interaction Research Studio, Newcastle University Bill Gaver, Andy Boucher, Nadine Jarvis,David Cameron, Tobie Kerridge, Alex Wilkie, Robert Philips (Goldsmiths, London,) Peter Wright and John Bowers (Newcastle University)