- 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
- PwDr: PwD responses
- BPSD: Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia
- BPSDd: BPSD mainly related with emotional distress (i.e., verbal aggression, frustration, anger), as observed by a PwD’s caregiver
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 PwDr (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 BPSDd) and prediction (prior to the onset of a BPSDd) of emotional distress (anger, frustration, anxiety) in PwD, reacting accordingly to improve their quality of life as well as of their caregivers.
- Wilson Lozano - USF CSE Phd Student
- Dr. Tempestt Neal, Cyber Identity and Behavior Research Lab, University of South Florida
- Dr. Sean Barbeau, Center for Urban Transportation, Univeristy of South Florida
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This project was funded under ...
[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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