7 papers
Stakeholder Insights for Designing In-Home Social Robots for Dementia Disorientation Detection and Caregiver-Aware Intervention
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
Dementia disorientation detection and intervention remain under-examined as socio-technical challenges for socially assistive robots (SARs). We conducted 14 semi-structured intervi…
Factors Influencing Conversational Engagement in Robot-Delivered Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) for Dementia in Home Settings
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
Social robots offer a promising means of supporting cognitive therapies for dementia care by guiding structured conversation and therapeutic activities. However, little is known ab…
Co-STAR: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy by an Autonomous Robot for Dementia -- A One-Week In-Home Study
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
Cognitive therapies have been shown to enhance the quality of life and well-being of people living with dementia (PwDs). However, their use remains limited due to a shortage of tra…
Multilingual Detection of Alzheimer's Disease from Speech: A Cross-Linguistic Transfer Learning Approach
Nadine Yasser Abdelhalim, Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
The development of multilingual Alzheimer's Disease Dementia (AD) detection models presents significant challenges due to the resource-intensive and time-consuming nature of langua…
In-Home Social Robots Design for Cognitive Stimulation Therapy in Dementia Care
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons
Individual cognitive stimulation therapy (iCST) is a non-pharmacological intervention for improving the cognition and quality of life of persons with dementia (PwDs); however, its…
WhisperD: Dementia Speech Recognition and Filler Word Detection with Whisper
Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nadine Abdelhalim, Nicole Salomons
Whisper fails to correctly transcribe dementia speech because persons with dementia (PwDs) often exhibit irregular speech patterns and disfluencies such as pauses, repetitions, and…