| Project/Area Number |
25350686
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
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| Research Institution | Meijo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SHIGEMATSU Ryosuke 三重大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60323284)
YAMADA Muneo 名城大学, 理工学部, 教授 (70509653)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
DOI Shun'ichi 香川大学, 工学部, 教授 (00380147)
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| Research Collaborator |
YAMAMOTO Shin 名城大学, 総合研究所
NISHIMURA Yoshihiro 株式会社豊田中央研究所
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Keywords | 健康・福祉工学 / 超高齢社会 / 高齢者支援 / 日常生活 / 自動車運転 / 認知機能 / 健康運動 / 運転シミュレータ / 超高齢社会／高齢者支援 / 香り提示システム |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we made a simple driving simulator and we propose methods to evaluate the elderly cognitive functions during driving by their driving performances using a simplified driving simulator. The scenery in driving scenes, which is similar to those in local road driving in reality, incorporates features of typical accidents of the elderly. Evaluation and measurement of driving performance were commonly done throughout the four functions (attention, visuospatial cognition, planning and working memory) and were classified into five categories.
This study establishes whether daily exercise habits, which are known as a square-stepping exercise, have a beneficial effect on improving the elderly cognitive functions. The result of this past year's experiments shows that the weekly exercise for two years affects the elderly driving ability to drive safely.
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