Every morning at 10 a.m. sharp, Juanita Wood, 87, taps “okay” on a screen to start up a device that takes her blood pressure and transmits the information to her medical clinic. At 10:30 a.m., her husband, Arthur, 91, touch-starts his own device, neatly lined up next to hers. The machine calculates his blood pressure [...]
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Ker Than Who would have thought? Using search engines may help stave off dementia and memory loss, a new brain-scan study suggests. Scientists found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience showed increased activity in key brain regions after surfing the Web for an hour a day for just two weeks. It’s not so [...] A form of artificial intelligence has been designed to help make life easier for people with dementia. Researchers have developed a computer system that reminds patients about their daily appointments. The computer-generated face known as MANA can talk, recognise faces and turn itself on when someone enters a room. MANA, or Memory Appointment and Navigation Agent, is designed [...] Someday soon, older adults may not need to move into nursing homes because they’ll have a household of technological wonders to keep an eye on them when they become frail. UTA professor Fillia Makedon displays some of the equipment as Kevin Xu wears an Motion Capture suit that digitally captures human motion as they do research [...] |
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