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Seniors with dementia living in nursing homes are often faced with boredom and loneliness due to lack of meaningful engagement and personalized activities. We applied Montessori method to design an interactive table for elderly home residents and evaluated the design with four female residents and a nurse. This method offers a range of levelled interactions to meet the needs at different stages and cognitive decline levels of the residents with dementia. The table initiates interaction with an increasing level of complexity that magnifies the rewarding effects and social connectedness among the residents. The qualitative evaluation during a pilot study indicated that the interactions with the table reduced agitation of the elderly participants and increased the instances of positive social behaviours.
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The author would like to thank the Chinese Scholarship Council, T. Zuo from Jiangnan University, and Sylvia van Aggel, Helma Verstappel from Vitalis Berckelhof for their support on the study.
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Feng, Y., van Reijmersdal, R., Yu, S., Rauterberg, M., Hu, J., Barakova, E. (2018). Dynamorph: Montessori Inspired Design for Seniors with Dementia Living in Long-Term Care Facilities. In: Chisik, Y., Holopainen, J., Khaled, R., Luis Silva, J., Alexandra Silva, P. (eds) Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment. INTETAIN 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73062-2_4
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