Could Your Webcam Help With Dementia and Stroke Rehab? This Startup Thinks So

The useful part

Dual-task cognitive rehabilitation training scene utilizing 'EYAS Dual' | Image provided by INTHETECH Grocery shopping or putting food away involves more than memory. You need to recognize objects, decide what to do with them, and coordinate your movements. For someone experiencing cognitive difficulties, those familiar routines can become challenging.

How it works

• The potentially useful part is how the company intends to deliver it: through ordinary computers, tablets, and smartphones, without requiring a dedicated rehabilitation machine.
• South Korean company InTheTech is developing EYAS Dual around that connection between thinking and movement.
• "It runs on any device you already own, no hardware purchase," InTheTech representative Lucy Lee told me during our interview.
• InTheTech wants to make movement-based cognitive training easier to bring into care facilities and, eventually, people's homes.
• Cognitive rehabilitation training program screen of 'EYAS Dual' | Image provided by INTHETECH InTheTech already has an established rehabilitation business and a family of EYAS products.

What to take from it

EYAS Dual represents a new delivery model within that business, with the company aiming to reduce the equipment and setup needed to access its exercises. During the demonstration, I noticed that much of the interaction involved the arms and upper body.