Personal spaces for multisensory stimulation as support to rehabilitate patients with cognitive disabilities

Abstract

This paper1 presents the work conducted as part of a doctoral thesis. Its objective is to establish and describe the concept of Personal Space for Multisensory Stimulation (PS4MS) in the field of rehabilitation for patients with cognitive disabilities. It aims at defining a set of design guidelines to be used by developers looking at providing technological support in this type of spaces. We detail the activities of the proposed methodology to conduct the work and present the main findings obtained so far.