Method and system for providing rule based cognitive stimulation to a user
AssigneeDakim, Inc.
InventorsJerry Philip Robinson, Dan Michel, Melinda Wu
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Abstract
A method and system for providing evolving, highly variable, long-term ongoing cognitive stimulation over a broad spectrum of cognitive domains. The user is presented with a series of entertaining audio/visual activities customized for the user, based on the user's life experience and cognitive level, each activity providing stimulation in one or more cognitive domains. The activities themselves and their level of challenge may change, in real time, over both the short- and the long term, varying in relation to current and historical user response patterns, creating an experience that remains engaging, with on-going use, over a period of months or years.
Claims11
A system for providing adaptive rule based cognitive stimulation to a user during a stimulation session for mitigating the decline of and maintaining and improving a user's cognitive abilities, said user having an initial predetermined cognitive profile defined for a plurality of cognitive domains, said stimulation session comprising at least one event, said event contained within an event subtype, said event subtype contained within an event type, said event type contained within a cognitive domain, the system comprising:
- a stimulator configured for providing interactive adaptive rule based cognitive stimulation to the user during a stimulation session of the user, wherein said stimulator is configured to:
- select an event type, an event subtype and an event in accordance with a plurality of predefined rules in an initial hierarchy of rules;
- establish a stimulation protocol in at least one cognitive domain based upon the hierarchy of predefined rules and the user's cognitive profile;
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- present cognitive stimulation in accordance with the stimulation protocol to the user via an interactive audio/visual display unit for user interaction therewith for mitigating the decline of and maintaining and improving the user's cognitive abilities;
- an evaluator adapted to evaluate the user's responses to said cognitive stimulation and to provide user feedback indicative of the evaluated response, said evaluator further configured to:
- adaptively modify the user's cognitive profile as a function of the users evaluated response;
- adaptively modify the hierarchy of rules as a function of the user's modified cognitive profile;
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- establish a modified stimulation protocol based upon the modified hierarchy of rules and the modified user's cognitive profile prior to the presentation of a succeeding cognitive stimulation;
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- an audio/visual interactive display unit in communication with said stimulator, adapted for presenting cognitive stimulation to and receiving responses from said user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.