Designing cognitive supports for dementia

Authors:
Joe Wherton;Andrew Monk
Affiliations:
University of York, York, UK;University of York, York, UK
Venue:
ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
Year:
2006

Citing 1
Cited 3

Inventing Wellness Systems for Aging in Place

Computer

Slice&Dice: Recognizing Food Preparation Activities Using Embedded Accelerometers

AmI '09 Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence
The prayer companion: openness and specificity, materiality and spirituality

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Rapid specification and automated generation of prompting systems to assist people with dementia

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of a PhD programme focusing on the design of cognitive prostheses to support people with mild-moderate dementia in the home. The approach taken involves two main phases. The first phase explores the problems that need to be addressed, from the perspective of professional carers, patients, and informal caregivers. The second phase focuses on designing a cognitive support that can assist patients through a specific activity. This paper reports the findings from the first phase (exploring problems of dementia in the home), and describes plans for the subsequent designing phase.