Interactive Cognitive Assessment Tools: A Case Study on Digital Pens for the Clinical Assessment of Dementia
This work addresses the need for cost-effective and quality-improving tools for doctors and therapists in healthcare, specifically for dementia assessment, but it is incremental as it builds on existing digital pen technology.
The paper tackled the problem of assessing dementia by developing a semi-automatic approach using digital pens, resulting in a case study that provides lessons learned and a generalization for broader applications beyond cognitive impairments.
Interactive cognitive assessment tools may be valuable for doctors and therapists to reduce costs and improve quality in healthcare systems. Use cases and scenarios include the assessment of dementia. In this paper, we present our approach to the semi-automatic assessment of dementia. We describe a case study with digital pens for the patients including background, problem description and possible solutions. We conclude with lessons learned when implementing digital tests, and a generalisation for use outside the cognitive impairments field.