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Agents and Dementia — Smart Risk Assessment

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Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies (EUMAS 2016, AT 2016)

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This paper describes applied research in the development of mobile, wearable and other smart technology to assist people with mild to moderate symptoms of dementia. With safety and security paramount, the primary objective is to prolong independence of the person with symptoms and provide an element of relief to families from what can become a full-time burden of care. Intelligent agents recognise activity in its context, assess risk and subsequently act to recover persons who wander or become lost. Results indicate that constant activity monitoring without ethically controversial tracking is possible without the necessity of invading privacy.

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    http://www.healthcare-today.co.uk/doclibrary/documents/pdf/826_Mapping_the_dementia_gap.pdf.

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    https://www.alz.co.uk/research/world-report-2015.

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This work is supported by Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships (KESS-2), a pan-Wales higher level skills initiative part funded by the Welsh Government’s European Social Fund (ESF) and is partly sponsored by SymlConnect Limited.

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    Steve Williams & Berndt Müller

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  2. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Portugal

    Carlos Carrascosa

  3. Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

    Nardine Osman

  4. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Vicente Julián Inglada

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Williams, S., Müller, B. (2017). Agents and Dementia — Smart Risk Assessment. In: Criado Pacheco, N., Carrascosa, C., Osman, N., Julián Inglada, V. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies. EUMAS AT 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59294-7_22

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