Researchers at Newcastle University are exploring ways that Google Glass could improve Parkinson's patients' quality of life by assisting them in placing phone calls, reminding them to take their medications or giving them behavioral prompts, such as speaking louder. In the video above, Roisin McNaney, a PhD student in the university's Digital Interaction Group, explains how using Glass could ease patients' anxiety about encountering a symptom-related problem while in public, raise patients' confidence and, ultimately, make them more independent.
Previously: Abraham Verghese uses Google Glass to demonstrate how to begin a patient exam, Revealed: The likely role of Parkinson’s protein in the healthy brain and Stanford study identifies molecular mechanism that triggers Parkinson’s
Via Medgadget
