Interim report
Memory aid for dementia
patients
LIFE LOG DIARY
Park, Cheolwoo
Park, SooSeok
Bae, HyeYoon
PREVALENCE
It’s not out of my business anymore.
PROJECTION
So, we have to be prepare.
CAREGIVING
Happiness of family and Independence of patient, both are important.
LONG-DISTANCE
CAREGIVERS
Long-term home care service is essential.
MEMORY LOSS
MEMORY ENHANCEMENT
MEMORY ENHANCEMENT
MEMORY ENHANCEMENT
Necklace type Ear piece type Embedded camera Bluetooth
FormCollecting
technology
Communication
technology
Device
Registered Smartphone
Person Recognitio
n
Place Recognition
Registered Location
TRIGGER
Memory of the PlaceMemory of the People
DATA STORED ONTO SERVER
PERIODICAL REVIEW OF THE DAY
Name: Peter
Age : 62
Occupation : formal engineer
Characteristics : Positive, active, social
Early stage dementia
Face Recognition Technology
Son Daughter in law Sally
LEAVE A MESSAG
E
FOR PETER
It was nice to se
e you.
Father, don’t for
get your medicin
e
You looked good
! Thanks for the
great dinner!
MESSAGES FROM PEOPLE IS EMBEDDED ON THE PICTURES
Technical Issue
Issues on Triggering Photo(1)
• Option
– 1. Context Based snapshot
– 2. Periodical snapshot
• Trades off between options
– Personal Big data problem
• Storage Problem
• Too much data for person with dementia
– Sensor cost for capturing Context
• Energy consumption
• Device wearability
• Product price
Issues on Triggering Photo(2)
• Our solution
– Context Based snapshot with existing resources
• Key Idea
– To snapshot based on context information
– To utilize pre-existing resource such as smart phone
and snapshot device
Smart Phone as Sensors
• GPS
• Compass
• Accelerometer Sensor
• Gravity Sensor
• Proximity Sensor
• …
Selective Snapshot Based on Context Information(1)
• Snapshot trigger
– 1. Social Connection
• To log human social interaction
• Bluetooth connection using predefined contact
information
Selective Snapshot Based on Context Information(2)
• Snapshot Trigger
– 2. Human Movement• To log human location in the form of spatial
coordinates information and related snapshot
• To snapshot when there is change of the location
• Method to detect the location change in energy efficient manner
– Predictive Location concept using predefined threshold valueYoussef, Moustafa, Mohamed Amir Yosef, and Mohamed El-Derini. "Gac: Energy-efficient hybrid gps-accelerometer-compass gsmlocalization." Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), 2010 IEEE. IEEE, 2010.
Life Log Data Management
• Auto diary App service for public and person with
dementia
• Auto backup service using cloud storage and Wi-Fi
Thank you!