With its Happiness Programme, Social Ability combines interactive projection, personalised activities and staff support to create opportunities for movement, connection and enjoyment for people living with cognitive and physical challenges.
How can technology help make everyday life in care settings more engaging? Social Ability’s approach centres on a simple idea: create activities that people can enjoy together, adapted to their abilities and interests.
The company’s Happiness Programme uses interactive light projections to encourage participation in care homes and other care environments. Games respond to movements of the hands, arms or feet, inviting participants to explore, play and share an experience. Discover the Happiness Programme.
Turning everyday surfaces into interactive activities
At the heart of the programme is the Magic Table 360, a mobile projector that can bring activities to tables, floors, walls and ceilings. Mounted on a wheeled stand, it can move between communal spaces and individual rooms, allowing staff to bring sessions to the people they support.
Activities range from making music on projected piano keys to playing air hockey or guiding hot-air balloons. The system also allows users to upload personal photographs, opening up opportunities to include familiar faces, places and memories in sessions. Explore the Magic Table 360.
This flexibility gives care teams different ways to encourage movement, conversation or quieter moments of engagement, according to the participants and the setting.
A programme that goes beyond the equipment
Social Ability places staff training and ongoing support at the centre of its offer. The aim is to help teams make the technology part of everyday care, rather than an occasional activity.
The programme includes initial training, online learning materials, featured training sessions and opportunities for individual support. Staff also receive guidance on games and activities.
To help teams reflect on their sessions, Social Ability provides a Happiness Tracker for recording participation, progress and outcomes. Tailored reporting offers feedback and identifies further opportunities to develop activities and personalised support. Learn more about the programme’s support and training.
An ambition rooted in personal experience
Social Ability describes its mission as creating a happier society for people living with physical and cognitive challenges. That ambition is shaped by experiences within the team’s own families, including caring for relatives with dementia.
The company brings together experience in interactive light technology and the care sector, with a focus on the social impact of its work. Its approach highlights the role that shared enjoyment and meaningful activities can play in everyday care. Read about Social Ability’s story.
For professionals working in the Silver Economy, the Happiness Programme offers an example of technology designed around participation and human connection, supported by training to help care teams put it into practice.
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