Veikko Saikkonen
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
Week 5:
- Worked on the experiment planning together with the group
- Planned the post-experiment interview questions
Week 6:
- Designed the introduction sheet for the experiment subjects