Communications of the ACM
Technology Can Improve Buildings for People with Dementia
Said Michael J. Ostwald of Australia's University of New South Wales, “The relationship between buildings and behavior is flexible. It depends on age, there’s a gender slant to it, there's a cultural difference as well. And that makes it both
Credit: Ostwald et al
The Plan-EAT tool for assessing buildings combined with spatial analysis can improve the design of aged care facilities for people with dementia.
An international project developed the system, which evaluates a facility's layout to gauge how its design relates to residents' needs, then applies machine learning, agent-based modeling, space syntax, and fractal analysis to formulate improvements.
Michael J. Ostwald at Australia's University of New South Wales said Plan-EAT analyzes the floorplans of proposed or existing facilities using "dementia design principles" like safety, size and scale, stimuli reduction, movement and engagement, privacy, and social interaction.
"Plan-EAT produces a kind of index against which the properties of architectural plans can be measured by expert assessors and then used to change a design for the better," Ostwald explained.
From University of New South Wales (Australia)
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