Using Smart Technologies to Understand Travellers Who have Dementia: Potentials and Challenges

• Age-related cognitive diseases are becoming a growing problem in Sweden. With the fast ageing population and lowered mortality rate comes the spread of cognitive diseases related to dementia. In order to accommodate this growing target group in transport and the built environment, it is crucial to understand the mobility and travel behaviour of patients suffering from these diseases.However, the adopted techniques to uncover travel behaviour of today do not allow for errors caused by cognitive impairment, since they require retrospective validation. Such design choices make it hard to understand how to improve the environment to accommodate the target group.  Recently, technologies have emerged that allow for new design methods which can be beneficial for the said target group. This paper aims to address the issue of how to collect and analyse data regarding the mobility of the target group, and roles of the built environment in affecting their behaviour. A literature review has been conducted to 1) uncover the state of the art of the technologies and design methods that relate to automated data collection about the travel behaviour, 2) understand the limits of the user related to software interaction and, in turn, data collection and 3) find possibilities for new solutions to collect travel data from patients who have dementia.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Samhällsbyggnadsteknik -- Transportteknik och logistik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Civil Engineering -- Transport Systems and Logistics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Annan teknik -- Interaktionsteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Other Engineering and Technologies -- Interaction Technologies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Ageing society

internet of things

travel needs

built environment

automated data collection

implicit interaction

Transportsystem

Transport Systems

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