Projet MinD (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Social Sciences and Humanities
Statut du projet : CLOSED

This project aims to help people with dementia engage in social contexts to improve psychosocial wellbeing. People who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias often face cognitive, behavioural and psychosocial difficulties, including impairment and degeneration of memory and of perceptions of identity. In a social context, this can cause difficulties of recognizing, relating to and empathising with other people. These difficulties often pose a challenge for engaging socially, reinforcing their effects and reducing personal well-being. Design can offer novel ways of complementing existing care approaches to empower people with dementia in everyday social situations. Utilising the concept of mindful design, we will investigate innovative design solutions to enable self-empowerment and confidence building of people living with dementia. We will specifically focus on two areas: personal difficulties with social interaction and environmental influences on social engagement. In these two contexts, we will study how personal, wearable designs can help mediate perceptions of identity and emotion management; and how environmental aspects can reduce feelings of information overload and instill feelings of self-empowerment and control. The outcomes and benefits of the project will include: the development of new uses of design for helping people with dementia to engage socially and improve subjective well-being; the presentation of a robust methodological co-design framework for the development and evaluation of the designs in dementia care settings; the development of a holistic mindful model of designing and of a model for mindful care for social engagement for people with dementia; policy recommendations for the inclusion of design within dementia care. This groundbreaking project will be enabled through an innovative consortium of academic and non-academic partners that combines research in product and environmental design, ICT, and dementia care.

Mots clés : mindful design, intuitive interaction, dementia, social engagement

Participants :
- Queensland University of Technology (Australie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Alexianer st. hedwig kliniken berlin gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 36000.0 €
- Pibarquitecturasix slp (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- ITMO University (Russie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Zorggroep Sint Maarten (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Twente (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 72000.0 €
- Alzheimer Europe (Luxembourg) — Partner, beneficiary, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- CERCA Institution (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Du it societa a responsabilita limitata (Italie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 18000.0 €
- Fundación INTRAS (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 76500.0 €
- Frederick University (Chypre) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 9000.0 €
- University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 54000.0 €
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 45000.0 €
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 9000.0 €
- Panton bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 9000.0 €
- Etic lab llp (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 18000.0 €
- TU Dresden (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 58500.0 €
- Manchester Metropolitan University (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 13500.0 €
- University of Wolverhampton (Royaume-Uni) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 112500.0 €