Toward a Minecraft Mod for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease in Young Adults
This addresses early Alzheimer's detection for young adults, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing game-based methods.
The paper tackles early detection of Alzheimer's disease in young adults by proposing a Minecraft-based system that analyzes spatial navigation patterns, with preliminary results showing high correlation with an existing Sea Hero Quest system, indicating likely similar effectiveness.
This paper proposes a Minecraft-based system for early detection of Alzheimer's disease in young adults. Early detection, where spatial navigation is a crucial key, is regarded as an important way to prevent the disease. The proposed system is compared with a recent existing and thoroughly studied system using a game called Sea Hero Quest (SHQ), by analyzing spatial navigational patterns of players. Our preliminary results show that spatial navigational patterns in both systems are highly correlated, indicating that the proposed system is likely as effective as the SHQ system for the detection task.