Metodología para la creación de aplicaciones tecnológicas que aportan a la mejora de las funciones cognitivas de atención y memoria en adultos mayores no institucionalizados

Abstract

In recent years, the population of elderly people has been increasing; hand in hand with this growth new technologies have appeared to improve the quality of life of this population group. Many of the older adults have both physical and cognitive diseases, the latter being one of the most important for researchers because they work with functions such as memory, language, reasoning, attention, and processing speed. In the present document, a new methodology called ADE2 has been proposed for the creation of technological applications with emphasis on serious games. This allows to contribute to the improvement of cognitive functions of attention and memory in non-institutionalized older adults. In other words, software developers can create serious games for these cognitive functions effectively and efficiently using the ADE2 methodology. Finally, to show the viability of the solution, a quasi-experiment has been carried out following the steps of the ADE2 design phase. The proposal was tested by a sample of twenty-two engineers corresponding to technical areas, from which results were obtained that validate the solution and provide information for future implementations.