Towards Digital Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Neurocognitive Disorder: the INFORMA Software Platform

In this paper, we present the INFORMA software platform, designed to administer therapy to people with a neurocognitive disorder (NCD). The platform includes an app for tablets through which people with NCD can access, while at home, personalized activities based on a pool of twenty multisensory serious games. The activities follow the Cognitive Activation Therapy rehabilitation protocol. The platform also includes a web application through which therapists can customize activities, assign them to patients, and, thanks to the telemetry collected by the app, monitor their progress. A key advantage of a platform like INFORMA lies in the fact that home therapy can last longer and reach more people. Further innovations of INFORMA lie in its activities, in the number of such activities, and in the customization options. Indeed, to the best of our knowledge, the flexibility and scale for which INFORMA has been designed, in terms of activities and users (people with NCD and clinicians), are unprecedented in the open literature. Addressing this scale required a specialized design. In the paper, we also present preliminary data on the use of the app by a first group of people with NCD.