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

MindfulGarden(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，以安抚患有高度活跃的痴呆症或精神错乱的虚弱住院老年患者。MG是一种建立在定制软件平台上的治疗设备，它对运动和声音做出反应，并使用生物传感器输入(心率、电流反应、呼吸频率)来触发多层互动的“花园”体验，从而减少经历精神错乱/痴呆症的住院患者的焦虑、激动和攻击性。该设备已经完成了与弗雷泽健康与和平拱门医院的概念验证，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，在现有概念验证的基础上进行两个关键领域的改进：(1)医院护理人员/工作人员的用户界面设计，以及(2)支持以用户为中心的文化背景的概念。用户界面(UI)设计将满足医院工作人员和护理人员对基于屏幕的互动的需求，以及医院工作人员和护理人员的可定制功能。还将与人类发展方案合作，制定一个框架，帮助确定最能支持来自广泛文化/区域背景的用户多样性的最佳视觉媒体，并将开发媒体模型，以便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以及最终报告中的流程文件。这些都是MG商业化的关键产品开发里程碑。该项目为艾米丽·卡尔的学生和教师提供了一个机会，与前沿的卫生技术行业合作伙伴扩大我们的课程工作和研究，特别是在痴呆症领域。通过模仿现实世界花园的恢复效果，利用根据每个患者的激动程度定制的生物传感器，MG努力增加对住院老年人精神错乱/痴呆症发生率的了解，减少住院时间，并减少照顾者和患者受伤的风险。TMGDHI预计，由此产生的经济和社会奖励将成为加拿大关于痴呆症护理的省和国家战略的一部分。

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.