Optimization Model for Development of Digital Interactive Exercises for Cognitive Rehabilitation

Cognition understood as the capacity to think, elaborate and use information in an adaptive way is mediated by the action of specialization gradients such as attention, executive skills, learning, memory, language, visuoconstruction, visual perception and social cognition. There are different pathologies associated with cognition such as depression, tumour diseases, metabolic diseases, Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, frontotemporal lobe degeneration, vascular disease, cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative trauma, which can generate a partial or total alteration of said processes; presenting mild cognitive Impairment (MCI). In the field of neuropsychological rehabilitation, interactive environments have been used as therapy to restore cognitive functions, seeking compensatory training against cognitive deficit. The interactive environments support the acquisition of skills and abilities lost as a result of a brain injury of various kinds. The basic concept that sustains this type of intervention is cerebral plasticity and its wide range of responses in brain functioning in order that the organism can adapt to the demands of its environment. The process of developing interactive environments as therapies requires the participation of psychologists, neuropsychologists, neurologists, general practitioners, social workers, software developers, graphic designers, software architects, caregivers and patients. Currently, the development cost of each one is $ 1000 with an approximate duration of 20 days. For all the therapy, 200 exercises are required, which approximates a cost estimate of $ 200,000 and 10 years, with the proposal is to reduce the cost and time to the third part, designing a methodology that allows the interaction of the different roles adapting and integrating methodologies of therapeutic development and Software Engineering.