Title :
The development of personalised cognitive prosthetics
Author :
Nugent, Chris D. ; Davies, Richard J. ; Donnelly, Mark P. ; Hallberg, Josef ; Hariz, Mossaab ; Craig, David ; Meiland, Franka ; Moelaert, Ferial ; Bengtsson, Johan E. ; Savenstedt, Stefan ; Mulvenna, Maurice ; Droes, Rose-Marie
Author_Institution :
School of Computing and Mathematics and Computer Science Research Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Abstract :
Persons suffering from mild dementia can benefit from a form of cognitive prosthetic which can be used to assist them with their day to day activities. Within our current work we are aiming to develop a successful user-validated cognitive prosthetic for persons with mild dementia. We have devised a three phased waterfall methodology to support our developments. Based on the evaluation of the first of these phases which involved the processes of user requirements gathering, prototype development and evaluation of in situ deployment of the technology we have been able to guide the technical development within the second phase of our work. Within this paper we provide an overview of the first phase of our methodology and demonstrate how we have used the results from this to guide the second phase of our work, especially with regards to the notion of personalisation.
Keywords :
Aging; Alzheimer´s disease; Communications technology; Dementia; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Prosthetics; Safety; Cognition Disorders; Database Management Systems; Databases, Factual; Dementia; Humans; Prostheses and Implants; Reminder Systems; User-Computer Interface;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1814-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649270
