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Designing a Mobile App for Treating Individuals with Dementia: Combining UX Research with Sports Science

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Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS 2019) (IACSS 2019)

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Abstract

Dementia treatment requires new approaches to delay the progress of the disease. Based on research results to treat dementia a novel approach to combine results from sports science with user experience research (UX) has been taken to develop an application (app) to support hospitalized individuals with dementia by an individualized physical activity program. This paper describes the methodology to develop the app and the current state of the journey.

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We thank the Dietmar Hopp Foundation for the support of this project.

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  1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Engler-Bunte-Ring 15, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Bettina Barisch-Fritz, Sandra Trautwein, Andrea Scharpf, Jelena Bezold & Alexander Woll

  2. Gustav-Meerwein-Strasse 15, 76228, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Marc Barisch

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  1. Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences, Technical University Munich, Munich, Bayern, Germany

    Martin Lames

  2. Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Danilov

  3. Moscow Centre for Advanced Sports Technology, Moscow, Russia

    Egor Timme

  4. Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia

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Barisch-Fritz, B., Barisch, M., Trautwein, S., Scharpf, A., Bezold, J., Woll, A. (2020). Designing a Mobile App for Treating Individuals with Dementia: Combining UX Research with Sports Science. In: Lames, M., Danilov, A., Timme, E., Vassilevski, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS 2019). IACSS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1028. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35048-2_22

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