What are the consequences of doing a deep dive in the area of Dementia  in a the context of the elderly home?
To me doing Interaction design is a very personal thing. I naturally use myself as a platform for the research and the designs that I do. This means getting involved and connecting to the person(s) whose world I am trying to understand without the distance of the anthropologist or psychologist. Through observation and/or conversation I encourage the person to tell me about their world but hopefully also allowing me to participate in it. An interview can be a great way to learn bout a field but supplementing it with observation rules out the say/do problem; saying that you do something does not necessarily mean that you actually do it.

Working with Dementia also means that peoples needs presumable will change drastically during the course of the disease. I need to understand the disease in order to avoid developing a solution that is not corresponding to the abilities present at the time the need arises. This could very well prove to be to difficult a task to succeed in 4 months but being aware of it will help in the case of user testing or if I choose to do co creation session.