Browsing by Author "Perugia, Giulia"

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    • Electrodermal Activity: Explorations in the Psychophysiology of Engagement with Social Robots in Dementia 

      Perugia, Giulia; Rodríguez Martín, Daniel Manuel; Díaz Boladeras, Marta; Català Mallofré, Andreu; Barakova, Emilia; Rauterberg, Mattias (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      The study of engagement is central to improve the quality of care and provide people with dementia with meaningful activities. Current assessment techniques of engagement for people with dementia rely exclusively on behavior ...

    • ENGAGE-DEM : a model of engagement of people with dementia 

      Perugia, Giulia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-12-21)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      Dementia is a neurodegenerative disease that affects cognition, producing a reduction in thinking, problem-solving, and mnemonic abilities, functioning, preventing affected people to care for themselves and carry out ...

    • ENGAGE-DEM: a model of engagement of people with dementia 

      Perugia, Giulia; Díaz Boladeras, Marta; Català Mallofré, Andreu; Barakova, Emilia; Rauterberg, Mattias (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-01-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      One of the most effective ways to improve quality of life in dementia is by exposing people to meaningful activities. The study of engagement is crucial to identify which activities are significant for persons with dementia ...

    • Quantity of Movement as a Measure of Engagement for Dementia: The Influence of Motivational Disorders 

      Perugia, Giulia; Rodríguez Martín, Daniel Manuel; Díaz Boladeras, Marta; Català Mallofré, Andreu; Barakova, Emilia; Rauterberg, Mattias (Sage, 2018-01-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Engagement in activities is crucial to improve quality of life in dementia. Yet, its measurement relies exclusively on behavior observation and the influence that behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) ...

    • Social HRI for people with dementia : one size fits all? 

      Perugia, Giulia; Díaz Boladeras, Marta; Barakova, Emilia; Català Mallofré, Andreu; Rauterberg, Mattias (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017)
      Conference lecture
      Open Access
      Motivational and emotional disorders (i.e. apathy and depression) are very frequent in dementia and might greatly affect the positive psychological state experienced during social HRI. We conducted a six-weeks study in two ...

    • Understanding engagement in dementia through behavior. The ethographic and Laban-inspired coding system of engagement (ELICSE) and the evidence-based model of engagement-related behavior (EMODEB) 

      Perugia, Giulia; van Berkel, Roos; Díaz Boladeras, Marta; Català Mallofré, Andreu; Rauterberg, Mattias; Barakova, Emilia (2018-05-24)
      Article
      Open Access
      Engagement in activities is of crucial importance for people with dementia. State of the art assessment techniques rely exclusively on behavior observation to measure engagement in dementia. These techniques are either too ...