Co-designing a Smart Mirror to Support People Living with Dementia and Their Carers

Gabrieli, Giulio and Berry, Damon and Doyle, Julie and Kambampati, Harish and Murphy, Emma and Turner, Jonathan and O'Sullivan, Dympna (2026) Co-designing a Smart Mirror to Support People Living with Dementia and Their Carers. In: Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Springer Nature Link.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	Science
Research Centres:	Netwell/CASALA
Depositing User:	Patricia McAleer
Date Deposited:	01 Sep 2026 08:11
Last Modified:	01 Sep 2026 08:11
License:	Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0
URI:	https://eprints.dkit.ie/id/eprint/1097

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