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While there are already several digital platforms to support cognitive rehabilitation allowing therapists to create sessions, they often overlook the importance of taking into consideration patients’ personal values and interests (personalization) to promote their engagement in rehabilitation. This paper proposes a personalized digital approach for cognitive rehabilitation. It presents a web-based prototype developed in collaboration with domain experts of a national Rehabilitation Center using a user-centered approach. This prototype allows therapist to create personalized exercises with content relevant to patients’ life, interests or personality, assign them to patients, and monitor their performance. It was evaluated regarding usability and assessed by two domain experts who suggested improvements to the prototype and put forward ideas for extending the approach.
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The authors are grateful to the evaluators who assessed the prototype regarding usability and suggested improvements. This research was partially funded by National Funds through the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, in the context of the project UIDB/00127/2020.
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Mota, A. et al. (2021). CogRehab: A Personalized Digital Approach to Cognitive Rehabilitation. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78635-9_40
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