The focus of workshop one was Who? The success of the project will be dependent on understanding the lived experience of beneficiaries, but significantly, this is context dependent, meaning that the relationship with caregivers and service providers (arts and health) must be prioritised from the outset. With this in mind, the objectives for workshop one were directed toward four key questions:
Who are we designing with/for? Who are the beneficiaries, care-givers and service providers (arts and health)?
What could make movement irresistible, specifically within the context of settings and relationships?
What are the barriers to engagement?
What can we learn from this, and what opportunities are emerging? For more on this see Case Study One
In this second workshop we asked: What could we be creating? The objective was to scope the technological, artistic and bio metric potential of MMI in relation to the findings from workshop one. The event comprised of four sessions: making movement, digital movement, making more movement and moving on. For more on this see Case Study Two.
We asked how we might provide meaningful interactions between facilitator/partner and older person,
what data will facilitators need and how do we encourage sustained engagement?
The focus for the refinements of MMI is to ensure that the technology is easy to use and understand, imaginative and playful; that we gather useful data, meaningful feedback, evidence and reward.