A Critical Lens on Dementia and Design in HCI

@article{Lazar2017ACL,
  title={A Critical Lens on Dementia and Design in HCI},
  author={Amanda Lazar and Caroline Edasis and Anne Marie Piper},
  journal={Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year={2017}
}
Designing new technologies with and for individuals with dementia is a growing topic of interest within HCI. Yet, predominant societal views contribute to the positioning of individuals with dementia as deficient and declining, and treat technology as filling a gap left by impairment. We present the perspective of critical dementia as a way of reflecting on these views in the context of recent epistemological shifts in HCI. In addition to articulating how HCI can leverage the perspective of… 
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