Desiging for mentally challenged people
Playful design for Activation: Co-designing serious games for people with moderate to severe dementia to reduce apathy
Tovertafel helps bring people with dementia out of apathy in the nursing home by providing a game as a stimulator that includes the (informal) care givers.
Researcher:
Hester Anderiesen Le Riche
CEO/founder of Tover
Design methodologies:
- Co-design
Project type: PhD Thesis
Domain: Design for Healthcare
Level: Service Design
Outcome: Game
2017
Challenge
The challenge was to stimulate people with moderate to severe dementia in the nursing home to reduce apathy by using design for play experiences. Part of the challenge was to extracting relevant information from neuroscience and turn this into smart game design. An important part of the project was also to include the (informal) care givers into the design.
The Tovertafel is a playful product consisting of a collection of interactive games projected on the dining table.
Hester Anderiesen Le Riche
Result
The Tovertafel is a playful product consisting of a collection of interactive games projected on the dining table. These interactive light animations connect the nursing home residents whilst playfully stimulating physical and cognitive activity and social interaction. The light animations invite the players to reach for them and respond to their hand and arm movements. They allow the residents to ‘play with light’, for example, by throwing a ball to each other or sweeping away autumn leaves. The Tovertafel games are based on familiar projections to make the interactions recognizable and for the residents to reminisce about the past.
Currently, this game is a commercial product in the Netherlands.
Hester Anderiesen Le Riche
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CEO/founder of Tover
Richard Goossens
- +31 (0)15 27 86340
- R.H.M.Goossens@tudelft.nl
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Room C-3-140
"In the end there is a solution for everything."
Marieke Sonneveld
- +31 6 24638474
- +31 (0)15 27 83088
- M.H.Sonneveld@tudelft.nl
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Room C-3-220