Behavioral Modeling and Cognitive Assessment in Smart Textiles.

Smart textiles can be used as innovative solutions to amuse, meaningfully engage, comfort, entertain, stimulate, and to overall improve the quality of life for people living in care homes with dementia or its precursor mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We have developed a prototype smart textile system that uses capacitive sensing to loosely couple the textile overlay from the underlying technology layer. This inclusion of technology adds to the user experience and quality of life is increased. Additionally, by using microelectronics, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and capacitive touch sensors we can represent and design a range of sophisticated memory and reasoning diagnostic/ assessment tools, which are detailed in this paper.