Cognitive Stimulation Alexa Skill

for Alzheimer’s Patients

SOUNDS GOOD! Salma Aboelmagd, Safin Bayes,
Almiqdad Elzein, Jassim Al-Matwi

PROBLEM & SCOPE GAME LOGIC SOLUTION

Alzheimer’s disease, a type of As our target audience is for patients
dementia, is a progressive above 60, we decided to use
neurodegenerative disease that Amazon’s Echo as our platform to
affects memory and cognitive
GAME START create a user friendly, voice activated
abilities seriously enough to interfere product.
with daily life. It has three general Segments of a
stages: We decided to create a game that
recognizable requires focus, attention to detail and
MILD MODERATE SEVERE sound are recognition of sounds in the form of
played out of an Alexa Skill.
While there is no cure for the disease, order.
studies found that through lifestyle It is a sound puzzle that requires the
changes and cognitive stimulation user to listen to three shuffled
patients can reduce the progress of segments of an easily recognizable
the dementia and its effects [2]. sound (ie. motor bike). Then the user
Player says will need to speak the number of
segments in the correct sequence.
DATA what they
believe to be
50
People are living with
the correct FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
dementia worldwide and this
MILLION number is projected to sequence of
increase to 152 million by Moving forward, we would like to
2050 [1].
sounds. incorporate a feature that would
Tallying up the direct medical, $1 track the performance of patients,
social and informal care adds TRILLION will in turn give an indication if the
NO MATCH.

up to patient’s cognition is deteriorating or

not.

Moreover, we have to test our game

Player input is
on patients and get feedback from
checked against them. Their feedback will be
the correct pre- essential for our future plan to
programmed understand if a hands-free, non-
visual medium provides a better
sequence. experience than mobile applications.
CORRECT MATCH!

OUR OBJECTIVE
Our aim is to improve the quality of
life of Alzheimer’s patients through
cognitive stimulation which is any
activity that provides general
stimulation for logical and creative
reasoning, concentration, and
memory [2].
Through elongating the moderate
stage, we aim to decrease the
amount of money that goes into
‘informal care;’ or care provided by
friends and family.
REFERENCES
[1] World Alzheimer Report 2018,” World
Alzheimer Report 2018 | Alzheimer's Disease
A new, more International, Sep-2018. [Online]. Available:
https://www.alz.co.uk/research/world-report-
challenging 2018. [Accessed: 16-Apr-2019].
[2]A. Park, “Preventing Alzheimer's: Keeping the
segment is Brain Active May Not Affect Disease,” Time, 10-
played in Jun-2015. [Online]. Available:
http://time.com/3916777/alzheimers-
arbitrary order. symptoms-delay/. [Accessed: 14-Mar-2019]