Background
With the the number of elderly people is increasing, more and more elderly people suffer from Alzheimer's disease, which has put a heavy burden on families and society.
THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF DEMENTIA
Around the world, there will be one new case of dementia
every
Memory box
Interactive toys for Alzheimer's patients
2 months
3
seconds
50 million people worldwide are living with dermentia in 2018. This number will more than
triple to 152 million by 2050
Many families lack attention and communication for Alzheimer's patients. The purpose of this project is to enhance the maintenance of family affection by designing a fun training toy that allows families and Alzheimer's patients to complete together.
"To enhance the interaction and attention between relatives and Alzheimer's patients."
DEFINITIONS
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
The main performance
OTHER DISEASES
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Dementia includes many types, Alzheimer's disease accounts for
60% - 80%
DEMENTIA
60%
to
80% of dementia cases
Dementia is caused by brain cell damage. Alzheimer's disease is a disease that damages the brain. Therefore, dementia is one of the most common causes of the disease.
The onset of the disease is slow or hidden, and it is more common in the elderly
over 70 years old
Cognitive function decreased mental symptoms and behavioral disorders the ability of daily living decreased gradually
Although there is no medicine at present, improving thinking ability and memory ability through a certain degree of exercise can delay brain degeneration and reduce symptoms.
according to the deterioration of cognitive ability and physical function it is divided into three periods
Phase I (1 ~ 3 years)
Phase II (2 ~ 10 years)
Phase III (8 ~ 12 years)
Social difficulties emotional indifference, occasional provocation often suspicious
The visual spatial ability of simple structure decreased, and the emotion changed from indifference to impatience
Severe memory loss, only fragments of memory; Eventually coma, usually died of infection and other complications.
In the first two stages, due to illness, patients will become indifferent and uncommunicative, which often leads to the alienation of the relationship between patients and their relatives
ART AND MUSIC THERAPY
Music therapy therapists use various forms of music experience and therapeutic relationships that can be used as therapeutic motivation.
Specifically, music therapy can help in the following aspects
Release stress, reduce anxiety and depression, and reduce agitation
Music can also provide a way to contact Alzheimer's family, especially those with communication difficulties
PRESENT SERVICE IN CHINA
Due to the limitations of China's pension situation excessive emphasis is placed on music therapists and music venues.
RELATED EXPERIMENTS CONCLUSION
Through the design of tactile and visual features mapped with music features, enhance the stimulation of front music layer, music layer and outer music layer, and build a multi sensory music experience
music
Interview
After adding visual images the subjects' emotional expressions are more explicit
tactile sensation
visual image
Li Pan
Mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease for 8 years
Jia Juan
Mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease for 12 years
Zhang Hua
Employees in the elderly care industry
Because of the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, the relationship between patients and their relatives is estranged. This design delays the disease, improves the patient's mood and enhances family affection by helping patients with multi sensory interesting training
give assistance enhances family affection
Auditory tactile experiment
Auditory touch visual experiment
The activity of combining visual image, touch and music has a positive effect on the elderly
Mother's attitude is always very indifferent
Mother's temper changed. She often argued with father about some small things
At that time, my mind was immature, and I was depressed or even frightened for a long time.
I didn't realize that filial piety could avoid regret until she died.
Some families usually do not pay enough attention to the elderly, and the relationship with the elderly is getting worse and worse
Alzheimer's patients
Relatives of patients
Firstly, the mapping design of music and reporting is carried out, and the tactile and auditory experiments are carried out.
Opportunities
The activity form is mainly receptive music therapy of listening to music.
PROBLEMS
It is not conducive to more elderly people to participate in music activities.
At present, the domestic music therapy experience is poor and the curative effect is not significant
delays the
disease
Through the combination of vision, hearing and touch exercise the cognitive ability of the elderly
Based on Experiment 1, visual design is added. Tactile, auditory and visual multi sensory experiments were carried out to verify its effectiveness.
Persona
The addition of visual images makes the elderly communicate more
Name: Age: Status: condition:
Chun Hong
Alzheimer's patients Alzheimer's disease for 3 years
Since the beginning of her illness, she began to have memory decline, cognitive impairment, social difficulties and other problems. Usually, She often easy to be angry and indifferent to my family
enhances family affection improves the patient's mood
Improve social skills and family affection by cooperating with family members
Improve the nervous mood of the elderly and improve their mood through multi sensory experience
Name: Age: Status: condition:
Liu Mei
Patient's daughter Care for patients for 3 years
multi sensory interesting training record good memories Product
Due to the disease, there is often a gap between relatives and patients.
There is a lack of communication bridge between relatives and patients.
She takes good care of her mother, but because of communication problems often quarrels with her mother, and the relationship is difficult to maintain. increase
Works
Through the interesting multi sensory game experience, a way of communication between family and patients is formed to retain good memories
Product design
PART 1: PRODUCT DESIGN
Product design
PART 2: APP DESIGN
Under the guidance of relatives, the patient creates a simple pattern by pressing the button on the right side of the product.
BLUETOOTH
Each button has corresponding notes. Click the play button, and the product will play the notes pressed in sequence, turning the painting into a piece of music, giving the patient a multi sensory music visual experience
When creating satisfactory works, relatives can open Bluetooth mode to connect to mobile phones, save good memories in app and share them with other relatives
DETAIL
You can upload, save and share your works on the software to retain the good memories with patients. You can also watch other people's works for inspiration or as an example of creating with patients next time.
Colored opaque plastic
Creative area
Make works by pressing buttons
Each column of keys corresponds to the corresponding note.
This product will play from left to right and from top to bottom according to the note of the pressed button
STEP 1
The patient creates the image by pressing the key.
Patient presses the button according to his own idea, creates the picture.
STEP 2
After creation, click play.
After corresponding processing, the system will play the music
STRUCTURE
Brand
This is an app that retains the memory of music creation. It is composed of a box and a note. It records paintings with music, which corresponds to products and functions
Users create their own exclusive account through email to record and share good memories with their family
PERSONAL SETTINGS PART
If you store your works in your account, you can find your own and patients' previous works at any time. You can also praise your favorite works as a reference and discuss with netizens at the same time.
UPLOAD PART
After creating your favorite works, connect the device, you can edit the current painting music, choose to save and publish, so that you can save good memories
DISCOVERY PART
You can watch and listen to other people's works, praise and collect them as inspiration for future creation, and share your works with other relatives to strengthen family communication
Visual impairment adaptation service system
2 months
When people first become visually impaired, it is difficult to adapt psychologically and physiologically. The main purpose of this series of products is to ease their anxiety and help them adapt in behavior
"Help patients with acquired visual impairment adapt faster."
Background DEFINITIONS
Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from visual impairment.Vision impairment severely impacts quality of life among adult populations.
DATA ANALYSIS OF ACQUIRED VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
At least 2.2 billion people in the world have visual impairment at least 1 billion of them have acquired visual impairment
The blind refers to people with visual impairment, which can be divided into two categories: TOTALLY BLIND and VISUAL IMPAIRMENT
100% 60%
Total blindness is the loss of response to light. Visual impairment is 60% lower than normal vision
KEY FACTS
50.6% In the past 30 years, The number of visually impaired increased by 50.6%
45%
2021
338 Million
2050
900 Million
According to an updated preprint study accepted by The Lancet and highlighted on World Sight Day, by 2050, nearly 900 million people worldwide will be affected by blindness and severe visual impairment. The number of people is 338 million.
visual impairment
2.2 Billion 1 Billion acquired visual impairment
The number of people with visual impairment in the world is increasing rapidly,and nearly half of them are acquired visual impairment.
The number of acquired visual impairment is very large
IMPACT OF ACQUIRED VISION IMPAIRMENT
Adults with acquired vision impairment
lower rates of workforce participation and productivity higher rates of depression and anxiety
Older adults with acquired vision impairment
social isolation difficulty walking higher risk of falls
Investigation
QUESTIONNAIRE
The situation of the acquired visually impaired : total number of samples is 80 people
PRESENT DESIGN
With the increase of the number of visually impaired people,there are many corresponding services and products
Public facilities
Persona
Emotional Experience
"I am desperate, I don’t know how to adapt to the visually impaired life"
According to the literature, the psychology of patients will undergo four stages of changes when they just become visually impaired
say that THE MOST DIFFICULT PART is when they JUST BECOME visually impaired
90% have PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS when they just suffer from visual impairment
80%
To ensure that the visually impaired guide the blind to travel at ease, give tips through the touch
Life products
name: Liu Yao age: 35
Condition: acquired vision impairment
DID NOT KNOW how to ADAPT TO THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED LIFE when they just suffer from visual impairment
Q:How long did it take you to adapt to the visually impaired life? How did you feel? How did you adapt?
Liu Xiaochun
Time of blindness: 3 years
It takes at least half a year to adapt, but some people have poor adaptability and may take longer to adapt. After adapting, my life returned to its original normal state.
Xie Xuan
Time of blindness: 1.5 years
have a very big psychological toll. don't talk every day. It's better after almost half a year of psychological counseling.
Ma Guan
Time of blindness: 5 years
At first was confused, no one told me what to do. live in endless panic every day. It took two years to adapt, and the process was very difficult.
A device used by the visually impaired to guide or recognize the surrounding environment
Culture and entertainment
Relying on visual and auditory perception of text and voice information, enrich the life
Time of blindness: half a year
Background
Liu Yao has just become visually impaired for half a year, and it is difficult to adapt to life after the visually impaired.
According to the survey, for the acquired visually impaired patients, the most difficult time is when they are just visually impaired. Most of them have DIFFICULTY ADAPTING TO THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED LIFE and at the same time experience psychological torture.
The difficulty of adapting to it
After becoming visually impaired, his psychology was severely hit, and he suffered a lot of inconvenience in life.
Usually be shocked by the results
Looking for the possibility of rescue
STAGE CONDITION ACTION NEED SHOCK
It is difficult for them to accept the results
At this stage usually believe it a little bit
Confirm with the doctor repeatedly
Communicate with the doctor in time
It needs the tolerance of doctors and family members.
But they are unwilling to believe it
After venting the anger, became quiet, negative
Inaction, even hurt themselves
Family members are needed to accompany
short long
easy hard
Public facilities
Time to experience visual impairment
Life products Culture and entertainment
Existing products are aimed at patients who have adapted to the life of the visually impaired.THERE IS A VACANCY in the market for products to help the visually impaired adapt to the life of the visually impaired
Most designs require learning and are designed for people who are accustomed to the life of the visually impaired, but THEY CANNOT HELP THE NEWLY VISUALLY IMPAIRED TO ADAPT TO THE LIFE OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED
Goals
MENTALLY ACCEPT the fact that having become visually impaired. Adapt to the visually impaired live IN BEHAVIOR
Frustrations
NO ONE TOLD how to adapt to the visually impaired life
It is difficult to receive SYSTEMATIC MENTAL TREATMENT
Core needs
Physiologically, allowing patients to adapt to life with visual impairment faster
Psychologically unblock the patient, while reducing the harm to the people around
ACCEPT THE FACTS
And began to accept the facts.
Began to accept the facts
Thought about themselves more deeply
Consider entering society Going out more
Pay attention to ensuring the safety Be independent in behavior
Various psychological barriers inevitably caused by physical defects, every blind person exists. OVERCOMING SUCH OBSTACLES is the first step for the blind to integrate into society.
This kind of maladaptation is CONCENTRATED IN THE FIRST THREE STAGES so we should guide patients in the first three stages to make them adapt faster.
Medical treatment & Mentall treatment APP USAGE PROCESS
In the early stage of illness, relatives, visually impaired patients and doctors can exchange information through app.
PEER COUNSELING
Peer
APP Design
it means that people of the same age give psychological enlightenment, comfort and support to friends who need help around, and provide a kind of help with the function of psychological counseling
DOCTOR / COUNSELOR
Through this app, we can help patients MORE INDEPENDENTLY AND CONVENIENTLY collect treatment information to adapt to visual impairment in the early stage of illness
Compared with professional psychological counseling, peer counseling has family affection, friendship, simplicity and effectiveness.
This app consists of three parts: PATIENT SIDE, FAMILY SIDE AND DOCTOR SIDE.
RELATIVES
In the early stage, patients can obtain exclusive TREATMENT INFORMATION AND MAKE TREATMENT APPOINTMENTS at any time through the app, and the information will be synchronized to the family side and doctor side for feedback;
Similar values, experiences make peer counseling play a very important role in the psychological problems. Therefore, psychotherapy chooses peer counseling.
In the later stage, app will help or actively seek PEER PSYCHOTHERAPY according to feedback from family and doctors to help patients adapt to visual impairment
PATIENT Brand
Setting part
Registration part
Use email and other accounts to register, so as to obtain personal information, bind with relatives and understand the situation of doctors
Report part
Patients and family members can see the test report and medical plan, and make an appointment according to the medical plan
Schedule part
Display the appointment information (time, place and route), synchronize at the relatives' side, and relatives can help make an appointment and accompany
Personal information can be changed and bound with relatives to facilitate information sharing with relatives
Record the patient's status and feed it back to the doctor, and take the initiative to seek psychotherapy when the family is not aware of the patient's abnormality.
Reservation part provide the specific information of the hospital / doctor, and the system recommends according to the medical condition
It is composed of one eye. The main service object is related to the eyes. The circle constitutes your exclusive eye doctor. The lovely style gives people a feeling of affinity
Color Icon Font
Scene Design
Since the development of SCREEN READING software for the visually impaired, the input method used for typing is easy, so TYPING is a familiar input mode for the blind.Therefore, most of the information input in the app is typing input.
Considering the READING ORDER the page layout shall simplify the information on each page as much as possible, and the buttons are larger than ordinary apps to reduce mistouch.
Service blueprint Shock & Bargaining
Shock Bargaining
Product design 1
SOUND SIMULATOR IDEAS
This product will train the visually impaired in two modes:
Stage
Looking for the possibility of rescue
Confirmed visually impaired
Peer counseling
Patient actions
Choose doctor
Go to the hospital Reserve Diagnosis View results
Repeated examination
Vent through violence
Understand the problem Diagnosis
Help guide Finish
Learn sound source direction recognition and sound recognition through this product
1. Identify different sounds through course learning records
2. Learn to find the sound source by placing the product in different directions with the help of relatives.
Sound device, external sound
Appointment reminders
Inquirer's narrative Doubtful
Talk about feelings
Family actions Help choose Ask for results Feedback condition remind employee actions Diagnose the illness Provide doctor information
Discuss solutions Learn basic information Communicate with patient Find peer counseling
Line of interaction
Provide route Provide diagnostic report media APP:Hospital medical treatment
Line of visibility
Provide appointment information
Notice matters Provide report
Establish trust relationship
Inquire about the situation
Analyze problem
Discuss solutions
Arrange for the next conversation
Sound receiving device
AI emotion detection device
Convey emotions APP:psychological counseling
Backstage Integrate information Upload available time
Collect road information Record patient information
Make a treatment plan support processes
line of internal interaction Hospital provides information
Upload results
Establish communication
Transform the detected emotions
Collect peer counselor information
The doctor provides information
GPS Information Recording System
The doctor provides information
Hospitals establish doctorpatient channels
Integrate emotional information
Learn related knowledge Upload report
Training peer counselors Regulatory organization
Assess the nature and severity
Sum up experience and improve
Report upload platform
Collect peer counselor information
Patients use sound simulator for auditory training
INSTRUCTION STRUCTURE VOICE COMMAND DESIGN
Product design 2
welcome to use COMS, if you want the begininger guide, long press the upper button on the left hand; if you don't,long press the bottom button on the left hand to choose pattern; press the button to choose:
begininger guide starts: if you want to turn on or turn off this product,long press the bottom button on the right hand; if you want to turn on or turn off begininger guide,long press the upper button on the right hand; if you want to return to the previous level,press once the upper button on the left hand; now,long press the upper button on the left hand to choose pattern.
IDEAS EMOTION DETECTION & SPACE SENSING
Scan the other person's face during conversation, and AI recognizes facial emotion
Identify obstacles in the space, prompt the travel direction, and help visually impaired patients adapt to traveling alone
OBJECT RECOGNITION
When touching an object, lock the object through a ring, and scan the object through a headset to identify the object
(please choose pattern)
press once the upper button on the right hand to select voice recognition learning mode;
begininger guide
on/off
(the current course is STREET)
long press the upper button on the left hand to choose pattern.
(please choose pattern)
press once the bottom button on the right hand to select direction finding mode;
This product guides the visually impaired to perceive the shape and material of objects through touch training, and learn to recognize objects.
turn on/off the begininger guide
please choose pattern
return to the previous level back to home (select mode)
long press 3 long press 2 press once 1
the current course is STREET
use independent
press once the upper button on the right hand to select the previous course
(the current course is HOME)
(course is over) the current course is HOME
mode 1: voice recognition learning the previous the next play/stop mode 2: direction finding play/stop
press once 2 press once 3 press once 4 press once 4
long press 2 press once 2 press once 3
this mode need help,please let the helper place this product in different positions, now place the product and press the button.
press once the bottom button on the right hand to select the next course
(the current course is STREET)
this mode need help,please let the helper place this product in different positions, if you want to play the voice, press once the bottomr button on the left hand,press again to stop. user can point out the direction at the same time, now place the product and press the button.
if you want to play the current course, press once the bottom button on the left hand; if you want to stop,press again: now,press to play
begininger guide is over, if you want to learn again, long press the upper button on the right hand; if you don't, long press the bottom button on the left hand to choose pattern; now,please choose
Storage cube
Luggage Storage service system
2 months
Background Interview
With more and more tourists traveling, many scenic spots provide luggage storage services to help passengers place their luggage, but many problems in the service lead to the user experience is not friendly.
Liu Yi He Chuan Ye BeiOften travel with family for a short time
"when we travel on weekends, we often go home in one day"
In recent years, the number of tourists in China scenic spots has shown an upward trend
FIELD OBSERVATION
After field observation in the scenic spot, some phenomena were found
"we have a lot of luggage to take so we can't rest assured every time"
Persona
Often be away on official business
"When am on business, I often catch a plane in the morning or at night. "
"I often miss the hotel check-in time and go to the scenic spot with my luggage"
Often travel to various places alone
"Although there are not many things, am very tired after playing "
"Because have to take care of my luggage every time"
Many scenic spots provide luggage storage service to help travelers place their luggage, but many problems in this service lead to unfriendly user experience. The purpose of this is to slove the proble that scenic spots cannot provide effective service for the travelers who need to store luggage for a short time.
"Solve the problem of not being able to store luggage in scenic spots for a short period of time"
PROBLEM
"When I go to the scenic area, I often carry a lot of luggage, which makes me feel very tired"
Name:
Age:
Condition:
Background:
Deng yue 25 Frequent short time trips
Goals:
When playing in the scenic area, can free hands without taking care of luggage
Frustrations:
When have to carry uggage, if don't carry luggage at any time, can't rest assured that luggage will be damaged or stolen
Core needs:
In the scenic area, you can see many people holding large bags of small luggage, which seems very inconvenient
Due to frequent travel, often arrive at the hotel before the check-in time and there is still a long time before the bus time when I check out, so have to take a lot of luggage to the scenic spot
Play without burden Luggage safekeeping
Many people will have to carry their luggage when they play, which will make them have a bad experience. Many people have a need for luggage storage
