Diagnostic and Assistive Assistance in Occupational Therapy – DOMAID

The French team of the Lab-STICC (UMR CNRS), specialized in adaptive human-system interactions, and the DOMUS laboratory in Quebec, which specializes in cognitive assistance to the individual, will be partnering to design, produce and evaluate smart technology to assist occupational therapists in their interventions with individuals living with cognitive impairments.

These tools will enhance the work of occupational therapists by allowing them to monitor their work more accurately at a distance, using observation, analysis and synthesis devices for patient activity as well as a virtual assistant that can be used to monitor the work of occupational therapists. The virtual assistant will be autonomous and configurable by the occupational therapist.

We will use the DOMUS COOK culinary assistant and the virtual assistant of the STICC-Lab to explore how occupational therapists can master these new technologies and how the latter can assist them in their practice, particularly in the design of rehabilitation plans developed in accordance with the objective data they collect during the evaluations they carry out within the homes of individuals living with cognitive impairments. The overall idea of the project is to explore how these data can be used by smart technology to propose interventions that will be later given by the virtual assistant to continue the person’s cognitive rehabilitation within their homes.