A tool to promote prolonged engagement in art therapy: design and development from arts therapist requirements

Jesse Hoey; Krists Zutis; Valerie Leuty; Alex Mihailidis

doi:10.1145/1878803.1878841

A tool to promote prolonged engagement in art therapy: design and development from arts therapist requirements

Jesse Hoey
, Krists Zutis
, Valerie Leuty
, Alex Mihailidis

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Abstract

This paper describes the development of a tool that assists arts therapists working with older adults with dementia. Participation in creative activities is becoming accepted as a method for improving quality of life. This paper presents the design of a novel tool to increase the capacity of creative arts therapists to engage cognitively impaired older adults in creative activities. The tool is a creative arts touch-screen interface that presents a user with activities such as painting, drawing, or collage. It was developed with a user-centered design methodology in collaboration with a group of creative arts therapists. The tool is customizable by therapists, allowing them to design and build personalized therapeutic/goal-oriented creative activities for each client. In this paper, we evaluate the acceptability of the tool by arts therapists (our primary user group). We perform this evaluation qualitatively with a set of one-on-one interviews with arts therapists who work specifically with persons with dementia. We show how their responses during interviews support the idea of a customizable assistance tool. We evaluate the tool in simulation by showing a number of examples, and by demonstrating customizable components.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASSETS '10
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	211-218
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781605588810
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1878803.1878841
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility - Orlando, United States Duration: 25 Oct 2010 → 27 Oct 2010 http://www.sigaccess.org/assets10/

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Conference	12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Abbreviated title	Assets 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando
Period	25/10/10 → 27/10/10
Internet address	http://www.sigaccess.org/assets10/

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Hoey, J., Zutis, K., Leuty, V., & Mihailidis, A. (2010). A tool to promote prolonged engagement in art therapy: design and development from arts therapist requirements. In ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 211-218). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/1878803.1878841

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Hoey, J, Zutis, K, Leuty, V & Mihailidis, A 2010, A tool to promote prolonged engagement in art therapy: design and development from arts therapist requirements. in ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility . Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 211-218, 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Orlando, United States, 25/10/10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1878803.1878841

A tool to promote prolonged engagement in art therapy: design and development from arts therapist requirements. / Hoey, Jesse; Zutis, Krists; Leuty, Valerie et al.
ASSETS '10: Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility . New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. p. 211-218.

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