Traditional Dynamic Arts and Interaction Design

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

Traditional Dynamic Arts

• performance events including theatre, music, dance, opera

• production equipment and services like: staging, scenery, mechanicals, sounds, lighting, video, special effects, transport, packaging, communications, costume and makeup

• special thanks: movie and contemporary art

StagecraftAccording to different identityAccording to different attention spacesAccording to different position in space and in timeTiming opportunityScript

Other elements

Elements from traditional dynamic art forms

• Lighting• Design and procurement of costumes• Makeup• Props• Stage management• Recording and mixing of sound

1:Stagecraft

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

Light, Sound

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

Design for Elderly with Dementia:

Light, Sound and Movement

inspiration from the lighting and sound therapeutic methods for dementia as well as social and cultural activities of healthy elderly This project started with looking into the concept of meaningful activities for dementia and its connection to the feeling of happiness.

for example:

is a process practiced to evoke personal memory and experience of the past

music stimuli may have positive effects on mood and cognitive functioning

Bright sunlight is an effective anti-depressive. A prolonged exposure to daytime lighting improves the stability of rest-activity rhythm in the elderly with dementia.

Playing piano requires fine motor skills that improve the circulation to the brain, and the “brainwork”reduces the risks of dementia.

Daily music-based dance session helps patients with dementia.

In general, the prototype did bring come joy and happiness to the dementia elderly as expected.

The elderly loved to keep trying and interacting with different behaviors of the installation.

They loved to see the glowing and flowing light effects and to hear the curious water drop sounds after they had touched the lights.

The experts comments it as “ pleasant; the elderly love it; they are not bored anymore in the corridor; this provides with minutes of escape”.

StagecraftAccording to different identityAccording to different attention spacesAccording to different position in space and in timeTiming opportunityScript

Other elements

Elements from traditional dynamic art forms

2:According to different identity

• Operator• Performer• Spectator

• from workshop:“Interactive Patina of Culture”• name: “from be alone to belong”

One project

StagecraftAccording to different identityAccording to different attention spacesAccording to different position in space and in timeTiming opportunityScript

Other elements

Elements from traditional dynamic art forms

• Foreground interaction• Mid-ground interaction• Background interactionfrom unfocused to focused

3:According to different attention spaces

Getting the attention of the public is usually a challenging

task especially when the installation is surrounded by

crowded and busy elements in an open space, such as

buildings, lights, plants and busy people. Dividing the space

of the interactive public art installation into foreground,

mid-ground and background could help get attention from

people in noisy and distracting surroundings.

StagecraftAccording to different identityAccording to different attention spacesAccording to different position in space and in timeTiming opportunityScript

Other elements

Elements from traditional dynamic art forms

• Front stage behavior• Back stage behavior

4:According to different position in space and in time

open the story on the back stage to audiences

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5:Timing opportunity

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

at the right time

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

extending the time

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

time for expectationtime for interactive processtime for traces after(during) interaction

StagecraftAccording to different identityAccording to different attention spacesAccording to different position in space and in timeTiming opportunityScript

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Elements from traditional dynamic art forms

6:Script

• Motif(theme and plot)-------story• Deductive(expression)-------approaches

Script

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

Theme:What the work says about the subjectWhat the readers think the work about

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

Story and Plot

Design for Elderly with Dementia: Light, Sound and Movement

Deductive(expression)re-imaged version

• http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzUwMjY2Nzky.html

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