AGE-WELL Funded ProjectsOutputs
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| Persons with Moderate Dementia Improving Gameplay.5.1 AMBI-MON, 6.2 COG-ASSESS, AWNIH-SAM3 Carleton University, Bruyère Research Institute, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-06-27 | | | Detecting Cognitive Ability Changes in Patients with Moderate Dementia Using a Modified "Whack-a-MoleB. Wallace, F. Knoefel, R. Goubran, P. Masson, A. Baker, V. Guana, E. Stroulia, “Detecting Cognitive Ability Changes in Patients With Moderate Dementia Using a Modified 'Whack-a-Mole' Game”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1521-1534, Jul. 2018
This paper presents results from a 1-year study of 12 patients with moderate dementia in an adult-day program who played a novel whack-a-mole game-based measurement instrument for cognitive behavior and performance. The ongoing measurement of cognition and changes associated with dementia is a challenge for healthcare providers. Measurement methods based on a tablet-based instrument are proposed. Partnership with the adult day program greatly eased recruitment: all but 1 eligible participant joined our study, compared to 1 in 5, or lower, for previous studies with similar populations. There are three unique aspects to the design of our game: first, it has two distinct targets requiring different actions, which increases the cognitive processing for the users; second, each level is systematically more difficult; third, it records and analyzes player performance. The results show that the patients’ game performance improves over the first few weeks; this indicates that they are learning the game and retaining ability gains from week to week, suggesting some procedural learning is still intact. Over the year, 4 participants showed cognitive decline, 4 were stable and 3 improved based on their MMSE score. Two measures are proposed based on level progression within the sessions and mole-hit performance. The level-progression measure identifies declining participants with 1FN and 1FP error. The mole-hit performance measure identifies declining participants with 1FN error. These results demonstrate the potential for the proposed instrument to provide an ongoing measurement as an alternative for the repeated application of the MMSE.5.1 AMBI-MON, 6.2 COG-ASSESS, AWNIH-SAM3 Bruyère Research Institute, Carleton University, AGE-WELL NIH SAM3, Bruyere Research Institute, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2018-07-01 | | | Can a simple computer game help monitor cognitive change in persons with advancing cognitive impairment?“Refereed, First Listed Author (Abstract) In Press
Knoefel F, Goubran R, Baker A, Fraser S, Allard B, Wallace B, Stroulia E, Guana V, Masson P, Can a simple computer game help monitor cognitive change in persons with advancing cognitive impairment (poster), 9th Canadian Conference on Dementia, Canada, Toronto Conference Date: November 2017?”
5.1 AMBI-MON, AWNIH-SAM3 Bruyère Research Institute, Carleton University, University of Ottawa, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-11-02 | | | Monitoring cognitive ability in patients with moderate dementia using a modified “whack-a-mole”Monitoring cognitive ability in patients with moderate dementia using a modified “whack-a-mole”
Bruce Wallace; Frank Knoefel; Rafik Goubran; Philippe Masson; Amanda Baker; Brianna Allard; Eleni Stroulia; Victor Guana
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA)
Year: 2017
Pages: 292 - 297
IEEE Conference Publications5.1 AMBI-MON, AWNIH-SAM3 Carleton University, Bruyère Research Institute, University of Alberta | Scientific Excellence - Advancing Knowledge | 2017-09-20 | |
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