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Best Poster Award at the 28th Alzheimer Europe Conference 2018

DIGITAL’s poster on project PLAYTIME received the highest scores and won the prize

Best Poster Award at the 28th Alzheimer Europe Conference 2018
Josef Steiner (Sozialverein Deutschlandsberg), Dr. Lucas Paletta (JR). Photo: Julia Zuschnegg (MedUni Graz, Institut für Pflegewissenschaft)

From 29th to 31st of October 2018 one of the biggest events in the field of dementia has been held in Barcelona.

Under the motto “Making dementia a European priority” speakers of the conference, organised in collaboration with CEAFA and Fundación Alzheimer España, shared varying approaches and developments from their countries. 

DIGITAL Key Researcher Dr. Lucas Paletta presented the project “PLAYTIME: Motivation, emotion and assessment in serious games for dementia intervention” and its results together with our project partners. To perform personalized emotion-oriented exercise units in a playful manner to stimulate cognitive processes and to address physical activities and foster social inclusion is an innovation, which received a great interest among members of the network.

 

Links:

Project PLAYTIME 

Alzheimer Europe Conference 2018

AAL@JR-DIGITAL