Franklin, M;
Lagnado, D;
Min, C;
Mathur, A;
Kawsar, F;
(2021)
Designing Memory Aids for Dementia Patients using Earables.
In:
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers.
(pp. pp. 152-157).
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
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Abstract
Globally around 50 million people are currently living with dementia, and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year. The decline of memory and, with it, lack of self-confidence and continuous confusion have a devastating effect on people living with this disease. Dementia patients even struggle to accomplish mundane chores and require assistance for daily living and social connectedness. Over the past decade, we have seen remarkable growth in wearable technologies to manage our health and wellbeing and improve our awareness and social connectedness. However, we have to ask why wearables are not addressing this fundamental challenge of memory augmentation that threatens our society? Some limited existing work on cognitive wearables for dementia has focused on using images via camera-based life-logging technology. Instead, in this paper, we argue that earable - by virtue of its unique placement, rich sensing modalities, and acoustic feedback capabilities, uncovers new opportunities to augment human cognition to address this pressing need to assist dementia patients. To this end, we delve into fundamental principles of cognitive neuroscience to understand what constitutes memory disorder and its symptoms concerning errors in everyday activities. Building on this, we discuss the benefits of earables (in conjunction with smart objects) in modelling activity and intention of dementia patients and providing contextual memory cues. We put forward a guidance system to assist dementia patients with daily living and social connectedness.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Designing Memory Aids for Dementia Patients using Earables |
| Event: | UbiComp/ISWC '21 |
| Location: | Virtual Conference |
| Dates: | 21th-26th September 2021 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4503-8461-2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3460418.3479324 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3460418.3479324 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | earables, dementia, cognitive impairment, memory aids |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195998 |
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