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'Smart' Dresser Prototype Guides People With Dementia in Getting Dressed
An intelligent dressing system that integrates automated tracking and recognition with guided assistance was created to make dressing themselves easier for people with dementia.
Credit: nursing.nyu.edu
Researchers at New York University, Arizona State University, and MGH Institute of Health Professions have created an intelligent dressing system called DRESS, which integrates automated tracking and recognition with guided assistance.
Using a combination of sensors and image recognition, DRESS tracks progress during the dressing process, with bar codes on clothing to identify the type, location, and orientation of each piece.
A dresser equipped with a tablet, camera, and motion sensor contains one piece of clothing in each of five drawers, with the system alerting the caregiver if problems occur.
DRESS is very successful at detecting clothing in the initial stages of dressing, but struggles to identify when a user is finished putting on a clothing item.
From New York University
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