Veikko Saikkonen

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Week 1: Introduction Socio-Cognitive Engineering
- First lecture
- Started concepting the project work
- Researched the environment of persons with dementia
- Together with the project group formalised our first concept of the prototype: "Wellbeing assistant"
- Wrote the first drafts for some basic use cases and value proposals as well as the objective into XWiki

Week 2: Cognition, music, memory and dementia
- Lecture about the effects of dementia on the brain and the effects of music on that
- Further worked on the concept with the group, decided to use music both for conditioning (helps to recognize situations) and controlling the mood (backdrop for discourse).

Week 3:
- Lecture about Design Patterns and Ontologies.
- Based on the lecture, worked on the other part of our Ontology, the Wellbeing Ontology.

Week 4:
- Our group presented our design
- Made some additions on the XWiki page of this weeks lecture

Week 5:
- Worked on the experiment planning together with the group
- Planned the post-experiment interview questions 

Week 6:
- Designed an introduction sheet for the experiment subjects
- Added the sheet to XWiki

Week 7:
- Iterated on the introduction sheet and started preparing for the presentation

Week 8:
- Worked a lot for the quantitative interpretation of the results and the results visualisation for both the presentation and the report
- Did the final presentation
- After the presentation focused on some suggested improvements, such as the inclusion of Wilcoxon test for the quantitative results
- Based on the results, created the Results, Discussion and together with others the Conclusions sections of the final report