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T1 A driving assistant to help people with mild cognitive ipairment or early stages of dementia
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A1 Muñoz Organero, Mario
AB Sudden or gradual loss of ability to drive a car - such as with sight loss and/or cognitive decline - can have significant impact on people's wellbeing and mental health. In the INLIFE project there is a desire to provide an integrated suite of assistive technologies to particularly support people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment.  This paper presents a possible wearable technology to facilitate driving and monitor decline in driving capacity. The way we perform common daily activities is influenced by our cognitive abilities. Driving is one example of significant importance since the way we drive may have a potential impact in our safety. This paper proposes a framework to monitor and track the driving efficiency of a particular user in terms of energy consumption and perceived stress as a way to assess the user's cognitive abilities. A smartphone based personal recommender system is proposed to help the driver to drive better in high cognitive demanding situations as measured by the perceived stress by providing in advance information to help the driver better manage those situations. The perceived stress is estimated from the heart rate variability (HRV) signal from a wearable device. In the long term, the evolution in detected patterns in personal time series of perceived stress when driving in similar conditions could be used as an indicator of the severity and progress in mild cognitive impairment or early stages of dementia for particular patients.
PB International Society For Telemedicine & Ehealth (Isfteh)
SN 1818-9334
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25740
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25740
LA eng
NO Proceedings of Med-e-Tel 2016: The  International  eHealth,  Telemedicine  and  Health  ICT  Forum  for Educational, Networking and Business: April 6-8, 2016, Luxembourg
NO The research leading to these results has received funding from the“HERMES-SMART DRIVER” project TIN2013-46801-C4-2-R within theSpanish "Plan Nacional de I+D+I" funded by the Spanish Ministerio deEconomía y Competitividad and from the grant PRX15/00036 for the“Estancias de movilidad de profesores e investigadores seniores en centrosextranjeros de enseñanza superior e investigación” from the Ministerio deEducación Cultura y Deporte.
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