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

MindfulGarden（MG）由The Mindful Garden Digital Health，Inc.创建。（TMGDHI），探讨了互动技术和数字艺术的潜力，以平静体弱的老年住院患者过度活跃的痴呆症或谵妄。MG是一种建立在定制软件平台上的治疗设备，该平台对运动和声音做出响应，并使用生物传感器输入（心率、电流反应、呼吸频率）来触发多层交互式“花园”体验，从而减少经历谵妄/痴呆的住院患者的焦虑、激动和攻击性。该设备已与Fraser Health和Peace Arch医院完成了概念验证，预计将于2017年秋季进行临床研究。为了做好上市准备，TMGHDI希望与艾米丽卡尔大学的健康设计实验室合作，从现有的概念证明中提炼两个关键领域;（1）医院护理人员/工作人员的用户界面设计，以及（2）支持文化多样性的以用户为中心的媒体背景的概念。用户界面（UI）设计将满足屏幕的需求，基于与Mindful Garden媒体的互动及其医院工作人员和护理提供者的可定制功能。与HDL合作，还将开发一个框架，以帮助确定最佳的视觉媒体，最好地支持来自广泛文化/区域背景的用户的多样性，并将开发媒体模型，以传达产品推向市场时媒体多样性的潜在范围。预期项目成果包括最终高保真用户界面原型、背景视频资产的最终概念化以及最终报告中的流程文档。这些是MG商业化的关键产品开发里程碑。这个项目给艾米丽卡尔的学生和教师一个机会，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。通过模仿现实世界的花园的恢复效果，利用生物传感器定制每个病人的激动水平，MG努力增加对住院老年人谵妄/痴呆症的发病率的了解，缩短住院时间，降低护理人员和患者受伤的风险。TMGDHI预计由此产生的财政和社会奖励将成为加拿大省和国家痴呆症护理战略的一部分。

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.