Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul" 5 Innovative Design Ideas To Help The Elderly Cope With Dementia [Videos. One in three people will experience some form of dementia before they reach the age of 65.
The medical condition affects the mental function and can result in memory loss, poor motor skills, and an inability to communicate. The UK’s Design Council launched a 12-month Design Challenge that asked the design community to come up with products and services that address this issue. Recently, five ideas have been selected and each one explained via a short film produced by Why Not Associates. These ideas will also be receiving funding from the Design Council to further develop the concept.
fluido.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/slow-design.pdf. Empathic design: Research strategies. Understanding home: a critical review of the literature - Mallett - 2004 - The Sociological Review. Abstract In recent years there has been a proliferation of writing on the meaning of home within the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, psychology, human geography, history, architecture and philosophy.
Although many researchers now understand home as a multidimensional concept and acknowledge the presence of and need for multidisciplinary research in the field, there has been little sustained reflection and critique of the multidisciplinary field of home research and the diverse, even contradictory meanings of this term. This paper brings together and examines the dominant and recurring ideas about home represented in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature.
It raises the question whether or not home is (a) place(s), (a) space(s), feeling(s), practices, and/or an active state of state of being in the world?