Designing for Healthy Cognitive Ageing Project: Serious Game Data, 2021-2023

The Serious Game ('Our House') developed during the DesHCA research project is intended to assist individuals and organisations to make decisions about future housing. The development work involved a serious of playtests and workshops that provided feedback on the game and enabled it to be improved and refined. The initial draft of the game drew on findings from other parts of the DesHCA project. The data archive includes a sample of 128 participants, with a mixture of housing association (37), academic (13), local government (11), architecture (10), health and care sector (8) charity and third sector (20) and developer (4) backgrounds. There were also older community representatives (25). Participants engaged through a series of 10 playtests throughout the UK, ranging from 5 to 40 people (nine in-person and one online). The participants were recruited via snowball sampling.<p>As we age, many of us will experience cognitive changes, and for some of us, these will develop into dementia. We know that people's homes can make the experience of cognitive changes more difficult, or can enable continuing inclusion and sense of self-worth and self-esteem. DesHCA worked with people experiencing ageing and cognitive change and those who design and develop housing. DesHCA identified housing innovations that can support living better for longer with cognitive change. Our emphasis on healthy cognitive ageing goes beyond narrow conceptions of 'dementia-friendly design' into a more expansive and inclusive approach to housing innovation. The multidisciplinary DesHCA team involved stakeholders from all areas of housing provision, including people experiencing ageing and cognitive change, architects and designers, housing experts, planners, builders and housing providers. Older people were integral to DesHCA and their health was at its heart. The project designed homes that act as demonstrators and test-beds for innovations to support healthy cognitive ageing. These designs have been developed and evaluated from stakeholder points of view, then considered at a larger scale to examine their real-world feasibility. DesHCA is feeding directly into the UK and Scottish Government City Region Deal for Central Scotland (Stirling and Clackmannanshire), providing groundwork for local housing developments. The focus of this is sustainable, lifetime health, community and economic development, addressing deprivation and inequality. To achieve these aims, DesHCA took a co-production approach, with the whole team working to identify innovations that engage with their real-world experiences and aspirations. We used a range of data collection methods and produced analyses informed the design of the demonstrator houses. These designs evolved as stakeholders interacted with them and provided feedback from their different points of view. To collect data, we asked older people to map and evaluate their own homes and to experience and comment on new design features using virtual reality (VR). They then collaborated with builders, architects and housing providers in VR workshops to identify practical, realistic and affordable designs that can support healthy cognitive ageing, and therefore longer healthy, independent life. Partners came together in interactive workshops to convert designs into plans within a fictional town, building and retrofitting homes, creating services and managing budgets. We demonstrated how designs can work out in the real world, and how to bring together the various interests involved. Throughout, issues of costs were considered, to inform business planning and help make decisions on implementation of the new designs. The impact of DesHCA is achieved through showing what works in housing design for healthy cognitive ageing. Immediately, DesHCA will feed into the City Region Deal and longer term we will provide tools for future developers to inform their decisions about housing for healthy cognitive ageing. Throughout the project, disseminate findings were distributed to the housing, architecture and building sectors through stakeholder networks. We have published rigorous research findings to provide a peer reviewed, high quality research base for innovation. Thus the project goes beyond recommendations and guidance to provide evidence to support delivery at scale, grounded in the co-production approach that draws on the real experience, interests and imperatives that drive different stakeholders. DesHCA's multidisciplinary team built capacity among early career researchers in research leadership, working across disciplines such as architecture and planning, economics, sociology and across sectors with a range of different industrial and professional stakeholders, such as housing workers, planners and construction companies.</p>严肃游戏（Serious Game，又名‘Our House’）由DesHCA研究项目开发，旨在协助个人与组织制定未来住房相关决策。项目开发过程中开展了一系列游戏测试与工作坊活动，以此收集针对该游戏的反馈，推动其迭代优化。游戏初始草案借鉴了DesHCA项目其他模块的研究成果。 本数据档案包含128名参与者的样本，其背景涵盖住房协会（37人）、学术机构（13人）、地方政府（11人）、建筑行业（10人）、健康与护理行业（8人）、慈善及第三部门（20人）、开发商（4人），另有25名老年社区代表。参与者通过滚雪球抽样（snowball sampling）方式招募，在英国全境开展了10场游戏测试，每场参与人数5至40人不等，其中9场为线下测试，1场为线上测试。 随着年龄增长，多数人会出现认知功能变化，部分人群的认知变化会发展为痴呆症。我们已知，居住环境既可能加剧认知功能变化带来的困境，也可助力个体维持社会融入感、自尊与自我价值认同。DesHCA项目与存在衰老及认知功能变化的人群，以及住房设计与开发从业者展开合作，明确了可支持老年人伴随认知变化实现更优质居家生活的住房创新方案。本项目对健康认知衰老的关注，超越了‘痴呆友好型设计’的狭义范畴，转向更为包容广泛的住房创新路径。 多学科组成的DesHCA团队吸纳了住房供给全链条的利益相关方，包括存在衰老及认知功能变化的人群、建筑师与设计师、住房专家、规划师、建筑商及住房提供商。老年群体是DesHCA项目的核心参与方，其健康福祉亦是项目的核心关切。项目设计了可作为健康认知衰老支持创新方案的展示与测试载体的住宅原型。这些设计方案从利益相关方视角完成开发与评估，随后被放大至更大尺度，以验证其现实可行性。DesHCA的研究成果将直接应用于英国与苏格兰政府的中苏格兰（斯特灵与克拉克曼南郡）城市区域合作计划，为当地住房开发奠定基础。该计划聚焦可持续、终身健康、社区与经济发展，致力于解决贫困与不平等问题。 为实现上述目标，DesHCA采用协同共建（co-production）研究路径，全体团队成员共同挖掘贴合利益相关方真实经验与愿景的创新方案。项目运用多种数据收集方法，生成的分析结果为住宅原型设计提供了依据。随着利益相关方与设计方案互动并反馈各自视角，设计方案也随之迭代优化。数据收集环节中，我们邀请老年人绘制并评估自身住宅，通过虚拟现实（VR）体验并评价全新的设计特征。随后，老年人与建筑商、建筑师及住房提供商在VR工作坊中展开协作，共同确定可支持健康认知衰老、进而助力老年人实现更长久健康独立生活的实用、可行且经济的设计方案。合作方共同参与交互式工作坊，将设计方案转化为虚构城镇中的规划方案，涵盖住宅建造与翻新改造、服务创设及预算管理等内容。我们演示了设计方案在现实场景中的落地路径，以及如何协调各方利益相关方的诉求。全程考量成本因素，为商业规划提供参考，并协助制定新设计方案的实施决策。 DesHCA的项目影响力通过展示健康认知衰老导向的住房设计实践方案得以实现。短期内，DesHCA的成果将直接应用于城市区域合作计划；长期来看，我们将为未来的住房开发商提供工具，辅助其制定面向健康认知衰老的住房决策。在项目全程中，我们通过利益相关方网络向住房、建筑及建造行业传播研究发现。我们已发表严谨的研究成果，为住房创新提供同行评审的高质量研究基础。因此，本项目不仅提供建议与指导，更依托扎根于真实经验、利益与驱动不同利益相关方的核心诉求的协同共建路径，为规模化落地提供证据支撑。 DesHCA的多学科团队还助力早期职业研究人员提升研究领导力能力，合作覆盖建筑学、规划学、经济学、社会学等多个学科领域，以及住房从业者、规划师、建筑企业等不同行业与专业利益相关方。