What is it about?
Spatial ability may be a sensitive marker for discriminating between healthy individuals and MCI patients. Virtual Reality now allows for spatial tests to be easily and safely deployed in clinics or at home. We introduce the Spatial Performance Assessment for Cognitive Evaluation (SPACE) as a transgressive, transformative gamified battery of spatial tests for tablets. SPACE is designed to identify differences in spatial ability to support clinicians in the early detection of dementia and offers a flexible ecosystem for immediate and longitudinal assessments.
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Why is it important?
Can public health save money by identifying elder people at risk of falling before accidents happen? Fall accidents produce enormous costs for public health and are often associated with cognitive decline. This research work establish mobile tests that can be conducted by healthcare workers at home of the elderly to see whether they are starting to have signs of cognitive impairment.
Perspectives
SPACE is a step towards a more digital assessment of MCI in contrast to the more pen & paper based approaches that are currently prevalent in public health. Giorgio's hard work on this project as his PhD has been crucial for this to work out and a serious of forthcoming papers will illustrate how big of an impact this can make.
Jascha Grübel
ETH Zürich
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This page is a summary of: The Spatial Performance Assessment for Cognitive Evaluation (SPACE): A Novel Game for the Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3583828.
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