How can technology be used to understand each other better and feel more connected, even though we experience the world differently?
Dementia can change a person's perception of reality. Memories fade, moments are imagined, and communicating about this can be a challenge. This can cause people with dementia to say things that are seen as 'not true' by family members and caregivers. How do you deal with this? Do you enter into a discussion, do you let it go, do you ask questions, or do you go along with it?
This research investigates how situations can be supported in which people have different experiences of reality. How can technology be used to understand each other better and feel more connected, even though we experience the world differently?
Researcher
Yvon Ruitenburg
Ruitenburg, Y., Lee, M., IJsselsteijn, W., Markopoulos, P. (2024, July). Seeking Truth, Comfort, and Connection: How Conversational User Interfaces can help Couples with Dementia Manage Reality Disjunction. In ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2024 (CUI '24), July 8–10, 2024, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3640794.3665547
Ruitenburg, Y., Lee, M., Markopoulos, P., IJsselsteijn, W. (2024, May). Evolving Presentation of Self: The Influence of Dementia Communication Challenges on Everyday Interactions. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24) (pp. 1-16). https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642190