Can we improve the living environment of people with dementia with software and smartwatches? For two years, Daniela Gawehns did research in a care facility for people with dementia as part of the project “Dementia back in the heart of society.” This way, she tried to find out whether an open living environment leads to a better quality of life.
Gawehns develops new data mining techniques to examine various data and extract interpretable information from it. The collected data comes from various sources such as completed questionnaires, findings of staff, but also from the movement patterns of residents.
In order to record…
