Hi, I am Bhuman Soni and in October 2013, i was involved in a serious hit and run car accident from which i suffered a traumatic brain injury. As a result of the brain injury i suffered from a condition called Post Traumatic Amnesia. Basically at the time my short-term memory would last 5 seconds after which i would forget what i said and repeat myself. Seriously, my friends who spent time with me at the hospital kept a count of the number of times i thanked them for being there. So in a way, if you have seen the movie 50 first dates, i was like the character called 10 second Tom, except at that time i was 5 second Bhuman.Now during my recovery one of the first things i noticed was the process of evaluating the presence of PTA. The therapist would check for PTA by conducting an assessment as follows:
Now being a software engineer, i could see a few problems with this process, problems such as:
Very recently I met with a wonderful therapist who does PTA assessments on a daily basis and using her feedback, I am making some improvements to the app in order to make it a more relevant and easier to use for the end-user. If you want to know more about me and my background and experience, you can have a look at my LinkedIn profile. Alternatively a Google search about me should give you and idea of my published research in Computer Science for areas such as Artificial Intelligence as well as Computer Vision and Robotics.