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Team Project Name                                  aims to develop a home-based personalized
            Development of interactive training system for     training system that provides precise training
            cognition and hand function                        programs for individuals with cognitive impairments.
            Research Project                                   Training and evaluation will be achieved through
                                                               a hand-held apparatus integrated with interactive
            Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative        exergames.
            syndrome  characterized  by  cognitive  decline
            accompanied by loss of daily functioning and       Characterized as a combination of professional
            mental and behavioral disturbances. An estimated   rehabilitation program and artificial intelligence
            50 million people worldwide are living with        algorithm, the system will be able to provide
            dementia, with nearly 10 million new cases each    rehabilitation prescriptions according users’
            year. The number of people living with dementia is   abilities. In addition, with the ultimate goal of
            expected to increase to 131 million by 2050, with   productization, the system is expected to alleviate
            enormous social and economic costs.
                                                               the impacts of dementia on the lives of patients
                                                               and their families.
            Numerous technologies exist to provide healthcare   Key Words
            for people with dementia; however, the overriding
            hope is that interventions can be made to prevent   cognition, hand function, precision rehabilitation,
            or slow degeneration. Researchers have paid more   interactive system, medical device, National Cheng
            attention to and explored the correlation between   Kung University
            hand function, such as grip strength and dexterity,   Global Cooperation
            and cognitive function.                            Trainings to improve hand function can be applied
                                                               to improve brain activation and cognitive function.

            It has also been suggested that hand functional    Project Web Page
            performance correlates with cognitive function and
            may affect the independence of an individual’s life.


            Based on previous research findings, this study








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