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!