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  • Friendsourcing the Unmet Needs of People with Dementia

    João Martins, José Carilho, Oliver Schnell, Carlos Duarte, Francisco M. Couto, Luís Carriço, Tiago Guerreiro · 2014 · Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper presents a system that combines automatic smartphone-based lifelogging with friendsourcing — a form of crowdsourcing limited to a trusted social network — to create a cognitive prosthesis for people with dementia (PwD). With an estimated 35 million people affected…

    dementia · cognitive prosthesis · friendsourcing · crowdsourcing · reminiscence therapy

  • Automatic Task Assistance for People with Cognitive Disabilities in Brushing Teeth - A User Study with the TEBRA System

    Christian Peters, Thomas Hermann, Sven Wachsmuth, Jesse Hoey · 2014 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper presents TEBRA (TEeth BRushing Assistance), an Assistive Technology for Cognition (ATC) system that supports people with moderate cognitive disabilities in brushing their teeth independently. The research addresses a fundamental challenge: people with cognitive…

    cognitive disability · assistive technology · activities of daily living · dementia · intellectual disability

  • Technology for Supporting Care Staff in Residential Homes

    Gemma Webster, Vicki L. Hanson · 2014 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This paper addresses a neglected population in accessibility research: care staff who provide day-to-day support to residents in care homes, particularly those with dementia. While technology has been developed to support healthcare administrators, medical staff, and people with…

    dementia · residential care · care staff · person-centered care · digital biography

  • Automatically Identifying Trouble-Indicating Speech Behaviors in Alzheimer's Disease

    Frank Rudzicz, Leila Chan Currie, Andrew Danks, Tejas Mehta, Shunan Zhao · 2014 · ASSETS '14: Proceedings of the 16th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

    This paper addresses the challenge of automatically detecting communication breakdowns in conversations with people who have Alzheimer's disease (AD). AD is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that deteriorates memory, executive capacity, visual-spatial reasoning, and…

    Alzheimer's disease · dementia · speech recognition · natural language processing · machine learning

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