Short description
The ontology serves several purposes:
- model and organize the various concepts and relations related to memory support interventions
- represent different types of interventions and factors that affect the effectiveness of these interventions
- facilitate the sharing and integration of knowledge for memory support
Related work
Van der Roest, H. G., Wenborn, J., Pastink, C., Dröes, R. M., & Orrell, M. (2017). Assistive technology for memory support in dementia. Cochrane database of systematic reviews, (6).
Bourgeois, M. S. (2014). Memory and communication aids for people with dementia. Health Professions Press.
Alm, N., Dye, R., Gowans, G., Campbell, J., Astell, A., & Ellis, M. (2007). A communication support system for older people with dementia. Computer, 40(5), 35-41.
Ontology design
Ontology development
The design goal of the ontology was to support the system in achieving several goals:
- The system needs to be able to assist people with dementia in their daily activities.
- The system has to be able to care about PwD's mental state and well-being.
Ontology structure
Memory -
Emotional state - An emotional state is the result of the continuous influence that mood and emotion have on each other, observed at a certain point in time in a single individual (agent).
Response - The output that specifies what action that is to be taken, based on the emotional state of the agent.
Agent - An actor that can be animate or inanimate, as long as it can have an emotional state.
Mood - Low intensity, diffuse, and relatively enduring active state without a salient antecedent cause.