TY - GEN
T1 - 'Senior Moments'
T2 - 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2009
AU - Carmien, Stefan P.
AU - Cavallaro, Francesca I.
AU - Koene, Randal A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Everyone occasionally experiences momentary confusion about the intent of an action in the midst of doing an ordinary task ("Why did I come into this room?"). As we age, these momentary confusions, referred to here by the colloquial term senior moments become more frequent. Lapses of this sort can also be the result of specific cognitive degeneration associated with aging and can have an impact on day-to-day living that ranges from annoying to incapacitating. This paper discusses the current understanding of senior moments in relation to cognitive decline and depicts scenarios depicting typical instances of them and common sense techniques to repair the memory slips. We present a discussion of the challenges involved in the design of a computationally based system for supporting lapse remediation, and specific implementation issues involved in providing such a system
AB - Everyone occasionally experiences momentary confusion about the intent of an action in the midst of doing an ordinary task ("Why did I come into this room?"). As we age, these momentary confusions, referred to here by the colloquial term senior moments become more frequent. Lapses of this sort can also be the result of specific cognitive degeneration associated with aging and can have an impact on day-to-day living that ranges from annoying to incapacitating. This paper discusses the current understanding of senior moments in relation to cognitive decline and depicts scenarios depicting typical instances of them and common sense techniques to repair the memory slips. We present a discussion of the challenges involved in the design of a computationally based system for supporting lapse remediation, and specific implementation issues involved in providing such a system
KW - Aging and memory
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Cognitive disabilities
KW - Design methodologies
KW - Independence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70450239809&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1579114.1579158
DO - 10.1145/1579114.1579158
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70450239809
SN - 9781605584096
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2009
Y2 - 9 June 2009 through 13 June 2009
ER -