Ernesto Priego, Peter Wilkins & Simon Grennan - Workshop: Ambiguity, Empathy and Narrative Co-Design: The User Experience of Reading Dementia Care Comic

The World Health Organisation has anticipated that by 2030, 82 million people will have dementia and 152 million by 2050. In this user-centred online workshop, participants will read, compare and discuss two short comic books resulting from user-centred design and narrative research design methods: Parables of Care: creative responses to dementia care (Grennan, Priego, Sperandio, Wilkins 2017) and I Know How This Ends: Stories of Dementia Care (Priego, Wilkins, Martins, Grennan 2020).

The workshop seeks to test the hypotheses and motivations behind both comics and will allow participants to discuss and provide direct feedback on the narrative co-design methods employed in the creation of both comic books, in a practical effort to fully place the users/readers in the centre of the research and development cycle.

Grennan, S., Priego, E., Sperandio, C. and Wilkins, P. (2017) Parables of Care. Creative Responses to Dementia Care, As Told by Carers. UK: City, University of London, University of Chester, Douglas College. ISBN 978-1-5272-1200-8, available at https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/18245/

Priego, E. , Wilkins, P., Martins, M. and Grennan, S. (2020) I Know How This Ends: Stories of Dementia Care. London: City, University of London, University of Chester, and Douglas College. ISBN 978-1-9163600-0-6, available at https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/23705/

Wilkins, P. and Priego, E. (2020) A Comic Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing with Aging Parents During the COVID-19 Pandemic. [Online]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25383/city.12348959.v1 [Accessed 26 June 2020]

Priego, E. and Wilkins, P. (2020) “Comics as COVID-19 Response: Visualising the Experience of Video-conferencing with Ageing Relatives” ACM Interactions. June 12 2020 https://interactions.acm.org/blog/view/comics-as-covid-19-response-visualizing-the-experience-of-videoconferencing [Accessed 26 June 2020]

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