Cognitive Training System Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Patients with cognitive impairment face significant challenges in executive function due to severe brain function decline, leading to decreased quality of life, and existing technologies lack effective solutions for cognitive rehabilitation.

Innovation Solution

A cognitive rehabilitation system that uses a computing device to acquire and analyze environmental data, providing cognitive assistance by prompting users with target objects, receiving feedback, determining correctness, and adjusting the difficulty level or type of subsequent tasks based on user performance, incorporating MRI data for personalized intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If cognitive training tasks are made more difficult to improve executive function, then rehabilitation effectiveness is improved, but user accessibility and engagement deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverehabilitation effectivenessVSAvoiduser accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts task difficulty levels based on real-time performance monitoring. Tasks transition from easier to more difficult levels as users demonstrate improvement, ensuring continuous engagement while progressively challenging executive function capabilities. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system both accessible to users with cognitive impairment and effective for rehabilitation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates continuous feedback mechanisms that monitor user performance and provide real-time guidance. Feedback loops adjust task parameters based on observed performance, creating an adaptive training experience that maintains optimal difficulty levels. This feedback-driven approach ensures tasks remain accessible while progressively improving executive function, resolving the contradiction between effectiveness and accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If task difficulty is dynamically adjusted based on performance, then rehabilitation effectiveness is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverehabilitation effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-adjustment of task difficulty based on automated performance monitoring. The adaptive algorithm automatically evaluates user responses and modifies task parameters without requiring manual intervention or complex user input. This self-service capability reduces the operational complexity burden on users while maintaining high rehabilitation effectiveness through continuous optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system manages complexity by focusing on parameter changes rather than structural complexity. Task difficulty is adjusted through modifications of parameters such as time limits, response requirements, and task variability rather than introducing fundamentally new system components. This parameter-driven adaptation achieves effective rehabilitation while keeping system complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If personalized training is provided based on user performance, then rehabilitation effectiveness is improved, but data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverehabilitation effectivenessVSAvoiddata processing requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential performance metrics needed for adaptive training rather than processing all available data. By selectively monitoring and analyzing only the critical parameters required for task evaluation, the system achieves personalized training effectiveness while minimizing data processing requirements. This extraction approach filters out unnecessary data processing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial processing by focusing data analysis on specific performance aspects rather than comprehensive processing. This selective processing approach provides sufficient personalized training effectiveness without the excessive computational burden of analyzing all possible data dimensions, resolving the contradiction between personalization and processing requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20240096476A1Method, the computing deivce, and the non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for providing cognitive training
Publication Date: 2024.03.21 TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIV
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AI summary

The present application provides a method for providing cognitive training by using a computing device. The method includes prompting a first target object for recognizing by a user; receiving a feedback response from the user by the computing device; determining a correctness of the feedback response by comparing the feedback response with a stored answer by the computing device; and adjusting a level or a type of a second target object based on a guideline associated with the correctness of the feedback response. The second target object is provided for recognizing by the user after the first target object is provided. In addition, the present application also provides a computing device for providing cognitive training and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium capable of providing cognitive training.