title: The development of personalised cognitive prosthetics.
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.
authors.affiliation: School of Computing and Mathematics and Computer Science Research Institute, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland. cd.nugent@ulster.ac.uk
authors.forename: Chris D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Nugent
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: Mark P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Donnelly
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hallberg
authors.forename: Mossaab
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hariz
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: Franka
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meiland
authors.forename: Ferial
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Moelaert
authors.forename: Johan E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bengtsson
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Savenstedt
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mulvenna
authors.forename: Rose-Marie
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Dröes
mesh_terms: D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D017010:Reminder Systems; D014584:User-Computer Interface