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Playing Hard- to -Forget: Creativity in Game Design for Person- Centred Dementia Care. Anja Sisarica, Neil Maiden, Julienne Meyer ICLCity 2012, London. Creativity and play in problem solving.
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Playing Hard-to-Forget:Creativityin Game Design for Person-CentredDementia Care Anja Sisarica, Neil Maiden, Julienne Meyer ICLCity 2012, London
Creativity and play in problem solving • Creative solutions are not accomplished by intellect alone, but by the play instinct.– C. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 1933 • Let my playing be my learning, and my learning be my playing. – J. Huizinga, Homo Ludens, 1938
Application in dementia care • Even with impaired memory, every person is unique – changing hearts and minds of carers results in truly person-centred care • Maintaining identity, sharing decision-making, creating community, promoting positive culture (source: My Home Life)
Me Serious games Creativity City @ MIRROR Ima @ MIRROR Dementia care RNHA, MHL
User behaviour, User experience, User judgement, Game feedback, Learning, Explicit creativity support Game contents Implicit creativity support Learning outcomes Game environment Creative outcomes Game rules & borders How do variations of creativity support and game design influence players’ learning and creative problem solving outcomes?
Playing hard-to-forget • Uncoveringreasonsthatliebehindbehavioursoremotions • Implicitcreativitysupport: analogy (Other Worlds) whenbeing a detective in a game • Explicit creativitysupport: combinationalcreativitytechniquesofferedwhenmanagingtheclues • Boardgame vs. Video game
Goals for the future work • Define the relationship between creativity and games for motivated learning in terms of reflective problem solving, by proposing a domain-independent descriptive model; • Iteratively inform design of the model and verify its mechanisms by designing and evaluating prototypes in dementia care domain, in a series of empirical studies.
Creative mind plays with the objects it loves. – K. Robinson, Out of Our Minds, 2001 Want to get in touch? anja.sisarica.1@city.ac.uk @anjasisarica