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We designed an immersive escape room to use five digital projectors to achieve 360-degree projection, as well as a suite of stage lights to set ambience and immersion. The game focuses on the five global challenges expressed in Strategy 2030. Through the duration of 30 minutes, teams of up to eight, are transported to a range of immersive scenes from a pandemic control room, to the middle of a forest fire, to a recently abandoned home. In each chapter, teams must solve several puzzles that further highlight the challenges that Strategy 2030 must face over the upcoming years.
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Although designing interactive media experiences for people living with dementia has become a growing interest in HCI, a strong focus on family members has rarely been recognised as worthy of design intervention. This work considers working closely with families living with dementia to create personalised media experiences. In the analysis, we focus on individuality, relationships, and accepting changed realities. Furthermore, we describe directions for future research focusing on designing for contested realities, the personhood of carers, and the ageing body and immersion.
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Hackathons have become a popular tool for bringing people together to create novel or innovative possibilities to tackle a problem. Despite originating in technology-oriented communities, hackathons are now being adopted by other communities making them more inclusive and accessible. By redesigning the conventional hackathon format to accommodate engagements with those with lived experiences of dementia, we ran a hackathon last April to bring people together to design shared VR experiences with people living with dementia.
Andrew Garbett, Ziedune Degutyte, James Hodge, and Arlene Astell. 2020. Towards Understanding People’s Experiences of AI Computer Vision Fitness Instructor Apps. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021 (DIS '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1619–1637.
James Hodge, Sarah Foley, Rens Brankaert, Gail Kenning, Amanda Lazar, Jennifer Boger, and Kellie Morrissey. 2020. Relational, Flexible, Everyday: Learning from Ethics in Dementia Research. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–16.
James Hodge and Kellie Morrissey. 2020. Sharing a Virtual World with People Living with Dementia. In HCI and Design in the Context of Dementia (pp. 237-253). Springer, Cham.
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Sharing a Virtual World with People Living with Dementia
Kellie Morrissey, James Hodge 2019. The Conversation
Rens Brankaert, Gail Kenning, Daniel Welsh, Sarah Foley, James Hodge , and David Unbehaun. 2019. Intersections in HCI, Design and Dementia: Inclusivity in Participatory Approaches. In Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2019 Companion (DIS '19 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 357-360. Workshop
David Philip Green, Guy Peter Schofield, James Hodge, Mandy Rose, Kirsten Cater, Chris Bevan, and Stuart Iain Gray. 2019. Using Design Fiction to Explore the Ethics of VR ‘In the Wild’. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 293-299.
Melissa Qingqing Teng, James Hodge, and Eric Gordon. 2019. Participatory Design of a Virtual Reality-Based Reentry Training with a Women's Prison. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper CS14, 8 pages.
James Hodge, Kyle Montague, Sandra Hastings, and Kellie Morrissey. 2019. Exploring Media Capture of Meaningful Experiences to Support Families Living with Dementia. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 423, 14 pages.
James Hodge, Madeline Balaam, Sandra Hastings, and Kellie Morrissey. 2018. Exploring the Design of Tailored Virtual Reality Experiences for People with Dementia. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 514, 13 pages.
