The design of smart homes for people with dementia—user-interface aspects
Universal Access in the Information Society
The use of an intelligent prompting system for people with dementia
interactions - Designing for seniors: innovations for graying times
Technological opportunities for supporting people with dementia who are living at home
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Problems people with dementia have with kitchen tasks: The challenge for pervasive computing
Interacting with Computers
MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
HCSE'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering
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People with dementia have problems carrying out multi-step tasks such as making a hot drink. Intelligent systems are being built to prompt people through such tasks. However, the prompts used by these systems are likely to be viewed as novel. As people with dementia are known to be sensitive to novelty this could be a problem. An experiment was performed to determine how to prompt people with dementia with which knob controls which burner on a cooking range. A highly novel implicit attentional cue using fluorescent wire was found to provide comparable or better results than more conventional alternatives. It is concluded that design in this area does not need to be constrained by the need to avoid novelty. The experiment is also of interest because of the way that it was embedded in a natural cooking task suitable for people of varied cognitive capacity.