Adaptive Cognitive Support System for Dynamic Task Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals with cognitive challenges face difficulties in managing daily tasks due to memory issues and confusion, requiring tools that can assist and adapt to their capabilities to enhance rehabilitation and daily living.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that evaluates a user's performance in completing daily goals, dynamically adapting tasks and goals based on their capabilities, using a mobile device with a graphical user interface and integration with sensors and external devices to provide step-by-step guidance and modify tasks accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fixed daily goals and tasks are provided to users with cognitive challenges, then the structure and routine are maintained, but the system cannot adapt to changes in user capabilities leading to reduced effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts daily goals and tasks based on real-time evaluation of user performance. The computer receives feedback about task completion, evaluates the user's current capabilities, and automatically modifies subsequent goals and tasks to match their evolving abilities, transforming a static support system into an adaptive one.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates continuous feedback loops where user performance on tasks is evaluated, and this evaluation information is used to modify future goals and tasks. This feedback mechanism enables the system to learn from user capabilities and adjust its support accordingly, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
2Reliability
If tasks are made more challenging to promote rehabilitation progress, then rehabilitation effectiveness improves, but user frustration increases when they struggle with tasks they cannot complete
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically balances task difficulty with user capability by continuously evaluating performance and adjusting task complexity accordingly. This ensures tasks remain achievable yet beneficial for rehabilitation, avoiding both excessive ease and overwhelming difficulty.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes task parameters such as complexity, duration, and difficulty level based on evaluated user capabilities. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the system maintains optimal challenge levels that promote rehabilitation while ensuring user success and positive experience.
3Ease of operation
If the system provides detailed step-by-step guidance for all tasks, then users with cognitive challenges receive sufficient support, but the system becomes overly complex and difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments daily goals into manageable tasks with step-by-step guidance, presenting information in organized, digestible portions. This segmentation makes the support detailed and comprehensive while maintaining system manageability through structured organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically evaluates user performance and adjusts tasks without requiring manual configuration or complex user input. This self-adjusting capability provides detailed support while reducing the operational burden on users and simplifying system management.
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AI summary
Some embodiments perform a method for managing a person's daily goals based on the person's recent performance in completing certain of the daily goals. The method can include evaluating, by one or more processors, scheduling information associated with the person; evaluating a first set of activity information indicating the person's capabilities; generating goals and tasks based on the scheduling information and the activity information; presenting, on a display device, a first content identifying a first group of the tasks to complete as part of achieving one of the goals; receiving a second set of activity information indicating the person's capabilities in completing the first group of the tasks; modifying the goals based on the second set of activity information; presenting a second content indicating a second group of tasks to complete as part of achieving one of the modified goals.