CHAPOULIE , Emmanuelle

Most of the developed societies are experiencing an aging trend of theirpopulation. Aging is correlated with cognitive impairment such as dementia and its mostcommon type: Alzheimer's disease. So, there is an urgent need to develop technological toolsto help doctors to do early and precise diagnoses of cognitive decline.Inability to correctly...

Immersive environments that approximate natural interaction with physical 3D objects are designed to increase the user's sense of presence and improve performance by allowing users to transfer existing skills and expertise from real to virtual environments. However, limitations of current Virtual Reality technologies, e.g., low-fidelity...

We present a novel VR solution for Reminiscence Therapy (RT), developed jointly by a group of memory clinicians and computer scientists. RT involves the discussion of past activities, events or experiences with others, often with the aid of tangible props which are familiar items from the past; it is a popular intervention in dementia care. We...

Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool in many domains of therapy and rehabilitation , and has recently attracted the attention of researchers and clinicians working with elderly people with MCI, Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Here we present a study testing the feasibility of using highly realistic image-based...

Background: Virtual reality (VR) opens up a vast number of possibilities in many domains of therapy. The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the acceptability for elderly subjects of a VR experience using the image-based rendering virtual environment (IBVE) approach and secondly to test the hypothesis that visual cues using...

Praxis test is a gesture-based diagnostic test which has been accepted as diagnostically indicative of cortical pathologies such as Alzheimer's disease. Despite being simple, this test is oftentimes skipped by the clinicians. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to investigate the potential of static and dynamic upper-body gestures based...

Background: Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NS) such as agitation, physical aggression, shadowing and vocalizations are common in individuals with dementia compromising their quality of life and safety. NS have been associated with more time spent care-giving, high level of distress among caregivers and greater mortality among people with dementia....