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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Visual Working Memory Training of the Elderly in VIRTRAEL Personalized Assistant

Authors : Miguel J. Hornos, Sandra Rute-Pérez, Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez, María Luisa Rodríguez-Almendros, María José Rodríguez-Fórtiz, Alfonso Caracuel

Published in: Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies

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Abstract

Personal assistants using emerging technologies are showing a great potential to provide an important impact in different aspects of daily human life currently and during the near future. They are usually intended to help people with especial needs. The one presented in this chapter, called VIRTRAEL, is especially designed to assess, stimulate and train several cognitive skills that experience a decline as people age, reason why its target public is the elderly, as well as the therapists who treat them. VIRTRAEL is made up of different types of exercises, each of them specifically designed to evaluate and stimulate a different cognitive function. After presenting an overview of our tool, we focus on one of its exercises, the one devoted to the classification and memorization of images, which is intended to train the visual working memory. We also present a configuration tool that allows the therapists to customize and adapt each exercise to the preferences and needs of a given user. Moreover, we show some results of a pilot study carried out with a sample of elderly people.

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Metadata
Title
Visual Working Memory Training of the Elderly in VIRTRAEL Personalized Assistant
Authors
Miguel J. Hornos
Sandra Rute-Pérez
Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez
María Luisa Rodríguez-Almendros
María José Rodríguez-Fórtiz
Alfonso Caracuel
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-62529-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-62530-0

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62530-0_4

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