Table 7 Selected potentially useful technology-based objective measures
From: Clinical outcome measures in dementia with Lewy bodies trials: critique and recommendations
Technology | Potential applications as outcome measures |
|---|---|
Tablets and smartphones | Cognitive testing |
Cognitive fluctuations | |
 Sustained attention | |
 Response task | |
Frequent completion of questionnaires in different domains | |
Motor function (plotting speed and accuracy) | |
Tracking devices | Functional |
 Activity | |
Cognitive | |
 Wandering | |
Motor | |
 Activity | |
 Falls | |
Wearable sensors (e.g., gyroscope, accelerometers, heart rate monitors, etc.) | Functional |
 Activity | |
Motor | |
 Parkinsonism | |
 Gait | |
 Falls | |
RBD/sleep/EDS | |
Autonomic | |
 Heart rate variability | |
 Blood pressure | |
Kinematic analysis (e.g., gait mats, cameras, etc.) | Functional |
 Home sensor monitoring of activities | |
Motor | |
 Gait | |
 Falls | |
RBD | |
Home sensor monitoring | Functional |
 Monitor use of appliances | |
Portable EEG | Cognitive fluctuation |
Sleep | |
RBD | |
Virtual reality | Functional |
 ADL simulator | |
 Use of appliances | |
 Driving simulator | |
 Financial simulator |