InterAct Stroke Support based in London, is one charity I have found which helps stroke survivors through their recovery by reading to them. This organization works with actors and adapts it to everyone’s needs. The main achievement is to advance memory, as well as mood and communication skills and could be helpful in order to find out more about methods that could work within games.
https://www.interactstrokesupport.org/
This stroke charity is based in the UK and concentrates on motivating survivors to live with their situation and make their physical condition better. Therefore, they are especially interesting for my project, as it is based on motivation just like my research question is.
The ”Stroke Association” (UK-based) has the intention to support stroke survivors and create the best life possible, which could be supportive for the creation of my everyday objects.
https://www.stroke.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are
This London-based charity also collaborates with UCL, seeing this, I believe they would be open to engagement with other university students too. Since they work closely with medical researchers too, it could be helpful to get industry knowledge that is proven.
This UK-based foundation from Birmingham has the intention to find new products in order to help people who suffer from diseases like heart disease, strokes, or diabetes. They are open to cooperation and therefore potential collaborators for this project. Additionally, they are interested in creating new and innovative products, which I likewise try to do with my project.
https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/our-research/stroke
This charity is highly established for over 20 years. They don’t just focus on stroke survivors, but also on improving likewise the lives of their families. For this reason, communication about how to create games that could be engaging with the whole family is a consideration in my research.
https://www.think-ahead.org.uk/adapted-support-new-services
Finally, I decided that ”Shoreditch Trust” would be a good cooperation for an intervention, as they try to reach people’s full potential no matter what they have experienced. As they are in London based it would also be much easier to create and complete an intervention that is engaging if possible.
https://www.shoreditchtrust.org.uk/health-and-wellbeing/stroke-project/