Development of a Dementia Screening Application Prototype
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This article aims to study the process of working and user requirements of the MoCA test, which is the dementia screening test. The objective is to design and develop a mobile application prototype for dementia screening for the elderly. The design thinking process has been employed in this research to enable the creation of applications according to the user's requirements that consists of 5 steps: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. The mobile application for collecting MoCA test results is more convenient than the traditional paper form because it reduces the time and workflow. Moreover, it is convenient to retrieve information and provide simplified score processing by employing various technologies; image processing and deep learning, speech recognition, and processing, touches and gestures, number analysis, and timing. The testing of the dementia screening application still requires specialist control and diagnostics to enable test subjects to comply with the protocols of the MoCA tool for maintaining accuracy. The results of the satisfaction assessment of the dementia screening application users were at an excellent level, with an 80.98 average (out of 100.00) based on the system usability scale (SUS) as an evaluation tool.
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