The Agency of Touch: Engaging Alzheimer’s Patients
Design Approach
Jack S. C. Chen
The Agency of Touch: Engaging Alzheimer’s Patients
Design Approach
Jack S. C. Chen
locked in the affective parameters for an effective design object that will offer better opportunities for engagement with alzheimer’s patients.
A second expected outcome is a characterization of the qualities of the suggested solutions, abstracted to a level at which it can be reasonably claimed that these qualities inform the understanding of a whole class or genre of possible artifacts. In a design context, such understandings serve to guide upstream design work in desirable directions, as well as to guide assessment of proposed design ideas. Thus, the generative and artifact-oriented knowledge mentioned earlier works in tandem with the assessment oriented knowledge expressed as design qualities. Finally, on the level of design strategies and directions: useful conceptualizations are formulated with the given insights gained through field tests results and the distillation of qualities that render relevant to the engagement of the end user. The speculative notion within this conceptualization helped steer the direction and application of the final design product. The evolutionary cycle of these three-fold outcomes 126
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