Abstract
Numerous studies have confirmed that Alzheimer’s patients may benefit from memory rehabilitation processes. In this context, we propose a non pharmacological training, named Autobiographical Training. It is an adaptive and accessible “Question/Answer” training. It has a purpose to stimulate the patient’s memory. It is proposed in the context of a memory prosthesis called Captain Memo. (1) Autobiographical Training do not use general facts or false examples, but it automatically propose for each user their specific questions related to his life e.g., events that he lived. (2) It adjusts automatically the level of difficulty of the generated question depending on the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. (3) It supports multilingualism and multiculturalism. (4) It offers accessible user interfaces. We evaluated the accessibility and the usability of Autobiographical Training. 18 participants entered the study. The results confirmed that it is accessible and the frequent use of this training helps patients in reminding some information, in which they received the training.
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MMSE is a questionnaire to measure cognitive impairment. Scores range from 0 to 30. A higher scores indicate better performance. According to [12], MMSE below than 10 means “late stage”, MMSE between 10 and 20 means “mild stage” and MMSE better than 20 means “early stage”.
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The present work was funded by the VIVA projectFootnote 2.
The authors wish to thank Dr. Salma SAKKA CHARFI (Department of Neurology, Habib BOURGUIBA Hospital, Tunisia) for her valuable help.
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Ghorbel, F., Métais, E., Hamdi, F., Ellouze, N. (2020). A Memory Training for Alzheimer’s Patients. In: Bouhlel, M., Rovetta, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT’18), Vol.1. SETIT 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21005-2_40
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