“Dementia Eyes: Perceiving Dementia with Augmented Reality” by Shen, Pai, Kiuchi, Bao, Aoki, et al. …
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- Dementia Eyes: Perceiving Dementia with Augmented Reality
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Dementia is a global health crisis, of which there is a need to understand the patients’ perception towards improving their quality of life. Patient understanding of professional medical workers has been proven to be effective in the patient’s quality of life. We propose Dementia Eyes, a mobile Augmented Reality (AR) experience that simulates common visual symptoms of senile dementia based on the known pathology and medical workers’ experience with actual patients. Leveraging an iPhone and a Head-Mounted Display (HMD), we developed an application that allows users to see the world from the perspective of an Alzheimer’s type of dementia (AD) patient in real-time. The experience was validated by professional caregivers and doctors in Japan, and the result advocates for the efficacy of the empathy we intended to bring to the medical workers.
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