Team Sonar aims to promote discussion around returning control to those living with dementia by exploring technologies that track or "tag" individuals. Their solution, Affinity, uses an ambient clock display and mobile app to quantify care given by caregivers to those with dementia by showing caregiver locations and allowing communication. The display and app track caregiver visit times to ensure weekly care targets are met while encouraging communication between caregivers and those receiving care.

1. Team Sonar

2. Our Insight:
Technologies sacrifice the personal freedoms of those living with
dementia, leaving them with little control over their own lives.

3. Our Aim
Promote critical discussion around returning the
control back to those who are living with dementia
and explore what it means to be tracked or “tagged”.

4. Inspirations

5. Our Solution
What is affinity and what does it do?
Affinity is a service that quantifies the care given to those living
with dementia and encourages communication between the care
givers and care receivers.

6. Ambient Display
A key point from the presentations
highlighted the need to reduce
“overhead learning” that inherently
comes with the introduction of any
new technology.
Affinity uses a clock-styled ambient
display to show how far away the
person’s carers are. The person
with dementia is able to
communicate with a carer and
observe their location by tapping
the carer’s face.

7. Carers receive these prompts as
notifications on their phones which,
when expanded, provide them with
options to communicate or navigate to
the person they’re caring for.
The Carer’s App

8. Quantifying Care
The carers’ location data is used to keep
track of how much time they have spent
visiting the person living with dementia,
checking to see if they have met their
definable weekly target.

9. Carers are able to see how much time they
have contributed in comparison to the others
in the group.
Quantifying Care

10. Thank you
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