Wednesday 29 March 2017

New publication explores how nursing home residents with dementia respond to the interactive art installation ‘VENSTER’

A paper, co-authored by CATCH Professor Luc de Witte entitled: “How nursing home residents with dementia respond to the interactive art installation ‘VENSTER’: a pilot study” has been published.







Published in the Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology journal, the study found that VENSTER can facilitate different types of responses ranging from verbal reactions to active physical engagement.


The goals of this study were:
  1. To determine whether and how nursing home residents with dementia respond to the interactive art installation in general;
  2. To identify whether responses change when the content type and, therefore, the nature of the interaction with the artwork changes.


When (initially) coached by a care provider, residents actively engaged physically with the screen. However, responses differed between content types, which makes it important to further explore different types of content and content as an interface to provide meaningful experiences for nursing home residents.


You can read the full paper here.

For more information about this paper, please contact Professor Luc de Witte.

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