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Stille - Design Process

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:00:10 +0800

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Research

I started with desktop research to understand the aging and motivation: the books I referred to included Aronson’s Elderhood, Gawande’s Being Mortal, as well as Dan Ariely’s Payoff: The Hidden Logic that Shapes our Motivations. Concurrently, I started volunteering at the nursing home where I eventually did my research, and was able to ask some of the staff on possible areas of research for my final project.

Stille - Design Principles

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:55:31 +0800

Research yielded five design principles, which were used to design the solution:

Details of each design principle are below:

Address the Stress: create a break. The picture showed the emotional seismograph of a nursing home part-timer (sketched on a tablet): the thin line was her “happiness” chart, while the thick grey line was her “stress”. As she said to me, “happiness is not the same as stress.” Thus, it was not sufficient to create meaning, but there was a need to design for a break, even a small one.

Stille Concept

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:50:05 +0800

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Stille is a service which aims to help caregivers maintain their empathy and their energy to care, by supporting caregivers’ emotional well-being.

It does this through three modules, which
– Allow caregivers to emotionally support each other through sending audio messages of appreciation
– Provide timely prompts for caregivers to reflect on their day and visualizing the caregiver’s mood patterns
– Provide micro-breaks at a physical break station

Stille

Sun, 07 Mar 2021 08:57:04 +0800

Emotional care for institutional caregivers of the elderly

A Danish caregiver preparing the bed of an elder

Stille is a physical-digital service that aims to help institutional caregivers maintain their empathy and their energy to care, by supporting caregivers’ emotional well-being. It was my Final Project at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (IDP 2019), conducted from Sept to Dec ‘19. Research was done in two phases, which yielded five design principles used to design the solution: