Delivering cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) virtually: develo** and field-testing a new framework

L Perkins, E Fisher, C Felstead, C Rooney… - … Interventions in Aging, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose This feasibility and pilot study aimed to develop and field-test a 14-session virtual
Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (vCST) programme for people living with dementia …

Detection of eye contact with deep neural networks is as accurate as human experts

E Chong, E Clark-Whitney, A Southerland… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Eye contact is among the most primary means of social communication used by humans.
Quantification of eye contact is valuable as a part of the analysis of social roles and …

Toward an automated measure of social engagement for children with autism spectrum disorder—a personalized computational modeling approach

H Javed, WH Lee, CH Park - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Social engagement is a key indicator of an individual's socio-emotional and cognitive states.
For a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), this serves as an important factor in …

Explainable Depression Detection via Head Motion Patterns

M Gahalawat, R Fernandez Rojas, T Guha… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While depression has been studied via multimodal non-verbal behavioural cues, head
motion behaviour has not received much attention as a biomarker. This study demonstrates …

A transformer based approach for activity detection

G Sharma, A Dhall, R Subramanian - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Non-invasive physiological sensors allow for the collection of user-specific data in realistic
environments. In this paper, using physiological data, we investigate the effectiveness of …

[PDF][PDF] Design and evaluation of a virtual reality game to improve physical and cognitive acuity

BM John, S Ramanathan, J Jayan Chirayath Kurian - 2023 - opus.lib.uts.edu.au
Physical and mental health are both integral to healthy living and ageing, and a causalcum-
symbiotic relationship has been observed between the two. Physical and cognitive activities …

A multi-modal machine learning approach and toolkit to automate recognition of early stages of dementia among british sign language users

X Liang, A Angelopoulou, E Kapetanios, B Woll… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
The ageing population trend is correlated with an increased prevalence of acquired
cognitive impairments such as dementia. Although there is no cure for dementia, a timely …

Head matters: explainable human-centered trait prediction from head motion dynamics

S Madan, M Gahalawat, T Guha… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We demonstrate the utility of elementary head-motion units termed kinemes for behavioral
analytics to predict personality and interview traits. Transforming head-motion patterns into a …

Evaluation of an engagement-aware recommender system for people with dementia

L Steinert, FL Kölling, F Putze, D Küster… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
People with Dementia (PwD) and their caregivers can greatly benefit from regular cognitive
and social activations. However, these activations need to be engaging and likeable to take …

A Virtual Reality Game to Improve Physical and Cognitive Acuity

B John, R Subramanian, JC Kurian - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.01492, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present the Virtual Human Benchmark (VHB) game to evaluate and improve physical
and cognitive acuity. VHB simulates in 3D the BATAK lightboard game, which is designed to …