AI for Dementia

Definitions and acronyms

• Dementia: “Dementia is a term used to describe a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with your daily life. It isn't a specific disease, but several diseases can cause dementia.” [1]
• PwD: Person(s) with dementia
• PwD_r: PwD responses
• BPSD: Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
• BPSD_d: BPSD mainly related with emotional distress (i.e., verbal aggression, frustration, anger), as observed by a PwD’s caregiver

Project description

This repository includes the work towards the design, development and implementation of a smart agent capable of detecting and/or predicting BPSD that involved distress. The smart agent will be capable to react according to the detected/predicted emotional distress response in order to improve the quality of life of the PwD as well of the caregiver.

We begin with the hypothesis that signals representative of PwD_r (e.g., audio, video, inertial/movement measurements, physiological signals, speech, Bluetooth sightings as a measure of social context) can be used to train smart agents to automate the detection (occurrence of a BPSD_d) and prediction (prior to the onset of a BPSD_d) of emotional distress (anger, frustration, anxiety) in PwD, reacting accordingly to improve their quality of life as well as of their caregivers.

Researchers - Students

• Wilson Lozano - USF CSE Phd Student

Researchers - Faculty

• Dr. Tempestt Neal, Cyber Identity and Behavior Research Lab, University of South Florida
• Dr. Sean Barbeau, Center for Urban Transportation, Univeristy of South Florida

Utilities

TBD.

Run

TBD

Required Input Data

TBD

Output

TBD

Acknowledgements

This project was funded under ...

References

[1] : Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, "Mayo Clinic," [Online]. Available: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dementia/symptoms-causes/syc-20352013

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