On Designing and Implementing Graphical User Interface for Mild Dementia and Early-Stage Alzheimer's Patients

Authors

Michelle S. Blackwood, The College of WoosterFollow

Abstract

With purposeful design, user interface (UI) can be a powerful tool to influence human behavior and interaction outcomes. This Independent Study (IS) project seeks to exploit this concept through the use of games applications whose UI are strategically designed to promote memory stimulation in persons with mild dementia and early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. As a secondary goal, this paper also aims to provoke in its readers, a deeper awareness of the vast potential of UI in impacting the user experience.

Advisor

Visa, Sofia

Department

Computer Science

Recommended Citation

Blackwood, Michelle S., "On Designing and Implementing Graphical User Interface for Mild Dementia and Early-Stage Alzheimer's Patients" (2014). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 6126.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/6126

Disciplines

Cognition and Perception | Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces

Keywords

Alzheimer's, user interface, design

Publication Date

2014

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis