MindfulGarden, Interactive Digital Technologies for Elderly Patients with Delirium/Dementia

MindfulGarden，针对老年谵妄/痴呆症患者的交互式数字技术

• 批准号: 514554-2017
• 负责人: Cameron, JerriLynne
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: Emily Carr University of Art + Design
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=641518
• 关键词: MindfulGarden; Interactive; Digital; Technologies; Elderly

MindfulGarden (MG), created by The Mindful Garden Digital Health, Inc. (TMGDHI), explores the potential for interactive technology and digital art to calm frail elderly hospitalized patients with hyper-active dementia or delirium. MG is a therapeutic device built on a custom software platform that responds to movement and sound, and uses biosensor input (heart rate, galvanic response, respiratory rate) to trigger a multi-layer interactive "garden" experience that reduces anxiety, agitation and aggression in hospitalized patients experiencing delirium/dementia. The device has completed a proof-of-concept with Fraser Health and Peace Arch Hospital and is expected to be ready for a clinical study in Fall 2017. In order to prepare for market launch, TMGHDI would like to work with the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University on two key areas of refinement from the existing proof of concept; (1) user interface design for hospital caregivers/staff, and (2) concepts to support culturally diverse user-centered media backgrounds.The user interface (UI) design will address the need for screen-based interaction with the Mindful Garden media and its customizable features by hospital staff and care providers. Working with HDL, a framework will also be developed to help determine optimal visual media that best supports the diversity of users from broad cultural/regional backgrounds, and mockups of the media will be developed to convey the potential scope of media diversity when the product is brought to market. Expected project outcomes include a final high fidelity prototype of the user interface, final conceptualizations of background video assets and process documentation in a final report. These are key product development milestones toward commercialization of MG. This project gives Emily Carr students and Faculty an opportunity to expand our curricular work and research with leading-edge health technology industry partnerships, particularly in the area of dementia.By mimicking the restorative effects of real-world gardens, utilizing biosensors customized to each patient's level of agitation, MG strives to increase understanding in the incidence of delirium/dementia of hospitalized elderly, reduce the length of hospital stays, and reduce the risks of caregiver and patient injury. TMGDHI expects that the resulting financial and social rewards will become part of provincial and national strategies on dementia care in Canada.

正念花园（MG）由正念花园数字健康公司（TMGDHI）创建，探索互动技术和数字艺术的潜力，以安抚患有多动症或谵妄的体弱老年住院患者。MG是一种基于定制软件平台的治疗设备，可以对运动和声音做出反应，并使用生物传感器输入（心率、电反应、呼吸频率）来触发多层互动的“花园”体验，从而减少患有谵妄/痴呆的住院患者的焦虑、躁动和攻击行为。该设备已经在弗雷泽健康与和平拱门医院完成了概念验证，预计将于2017年秋季进行临床研究。为了准备上市，TMGHDI希望与艾米丽卡尔大学的健康设计实验室合作，从现有的概念验证中改进两个关键领域；(1)医院护理人员/工作人员的用户界面设计；(2)支持以用户为中心的多元文化媒体背景的概念。用户界面（UI）设计将满足医院工作人员和护理提供者与Mindful Garden媒体的基于屏幕的交互需求，以及其可定制的功能。与HDL合作，还将开发一个框架，以帮助确定最能支持来自广泛文化/地区背景的用户多样性的最佳视觉媒体，并开发媒体的模型，以在产品推向市场时传达媒体多样性的潜在范围。预期的项目成果包括用户界面的最终高保真原型、背景视频资产的最终概念化和最终报告中的过程文档。这些都是MG商业化的关键产品开发里程碑。这个项目给艾米丽卡尔学生和教师一个机会，以扩大我们的课程工作和研究与领先的健康技术行业的合作伙伴关系，特别是在痴呆症领域。通过模仿现实世界花园的恢复效果，利用针对每位患者躁动程度定制的生物传感器，MG努力增加对住院老年人谵妄/痴呆发病率的了解，减少住院时间，降低护理人员和患者受伤的风险。TMGDHI期望由此产生的财政和社会回报将成为加拿大省级和国家痴呆症护理战略的一部分。