TY - GEN
T1 - Co-designing a Smart Mirror to Support People Living with Dementia and Their Carers
AU - Gabrieli, Giulio
AU - Berry, Damon
AU - Doyle, Julie S.
AU - Kambampati, Harish
AU - Murphy, Emma
AU - Turner, Jonathan
AU - O’Sullivan, Dympna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2026.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - People living with dementia (PLwD) often struggle to complete Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and may resist unfamiliar, intrusive, or narrowly targeted assistive technologies. We report the co-design and development of a modular, low-cost, open-source smart mirror that delivers personalized, multimodal, and context-aware prompting while preserving the familiar aesthetic of a household mirror. Through iterative co-design sessions, stakeholders shaped features such as customizable visual, textual, and spoken prompts, including familiar prerecorded or AI generated voices, sensors’ triggered notifications, privacy-preserving local data processing, and camera-free multi-user identification. Feedback highlighted the importance of familiar design, adaptability, and non-intrusive interaction, guiding incremental refinements across sessions. The resulting prototype demonstrates strong potential as an accessible and dignified assistive technology for supporting independence for PLwD, and establishes a foundation for future in-home longitudinal evaluations and advanced monitoring capabilities.
AB - People living with dementia (PLwD) often struggle to complete Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and may resist unfamiliar, intrusive, or narrowly targeted assistive technologies. We report the co-design and development of a modular, low-cost, open-source smart mirror that delivers personalized, multimodal, and context-aware prompting while preserving the familiar aesthetic of a household mirror. Through iterative co-design sessions, stakeholders shaped features such as customizable visual, textual, and spoken prompts, including familiar prerecorded or AI generated voices, sensors’ triggered notifications, privacy-preserving local data processing, and camera-free multi-user identification. Feedback highlighted the importance of familiar design, adaptability, and non-intrusive interaction, guiding incremental refinements across sessions. The resulting prototype demonstrates strong potential as an accessible and dignified assistive technology for supporting independence for PLwD, and establishes a foundation for future in-home longitudinal evaluations and advanced monitoring capabilities.
KW - Assistive Technology
KW - Dementia
KW - Smart Mirror
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105045018306
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-032-29653-5_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-032-29653-5_3
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783032296528
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 31
EP - 48
BT - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction
A2 - Antona, Margherita
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 20th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2026, held as part of the 28th International Conference, HCII 2026
Y2 - 26 July 2026 through 31 July 2026
ER -