Creación de un lenguaje de dominio específico (DSL) para la especificación de interacciones humano computador, a través de dispositivos de captura de movimiento, en soluciones tecnológicas para entrenamiento cognitivo orientadas al adulto mayor

Abstract

In recent years, the elderly population has increased significantly, due to the increase in people's life expectancy, which has generated the need for care and assistance to this sector of society. In this sense, the use of new technologies that significantly contribute to improving the quality of life of older adults has taken on great relevance. In addition to providing the elderly with prolonging the period of self-sufficiency in the face of daily life tasks, also including people with physical and cognitive disabilities, both inside and outside their home, as well as in specialized care centers. In this sense, environmental intelligence (AmI) is born, in which people take control of their tasks through a digital environment that is not only aware of their presence, but also responds to their needs; This area of knowledge has been created to help older adults with the activities of their daily life through the use of smart devices and services, in addition to allowing the health personnel in charge of their care to monitor them. Several investigations support the construction of support and support systems for older adults, for this reason, environment-assisted living environments (AAL) are used, which aim to support the improvement of the situation and quality of life of the elderly. people in their environment, whether family or nursing home, increasing their autonomy using smart devices. AAL systems provide an ecosystem of medical and environmental sensors that are interconnected to exchange data and provide services. To try to minimize the difficulties that older adults present, it is important to have technological tools that facilitate the activities in their environment; for this reason, physical and digital components are created. In this context, Domain Specific Language (DSL) allows specifying the needs of the domain expert through a graphical tool with sufficient semantics. In addition, to make use of motion capture devices that are integrated into the DSL structure and interactions that, in this specific case, can contribute favorably to the representation of the constituent elements of an AAL environment for older adults. Consequently, this degree work presents the challenge of creating a domain-specific language (DSL) that makes use of motion capture devices (MoCap) and that at the same time performs rehabilitation of people with total or partial mobility problems, physical or cognitive, using interactions or gestures as a natural form of non-invasive communication for patients. In addition, a serious game is offered as an application product of the instantiation of the model created from the DSL-MoCap, whose objective is education and training using different forms of communication and interaction. Finally, DSL and serious game are evaluated through a quasi-experiment and case study, respectively, applying different methodologies that validate their utility and applicability, analyzing the perception of use by domain experts and patients in the case of serious game; whose results have been positive within this project.