Description and Justification of Key Design Criteria:
The current clinical mental status examinations, specifically amnesia evaluation, are highly dependent on the cognitive judgment of the physicians. The mental status examination includes a wide range of evaluations about the patients’ cognitive judgment, memory, executive function, etc. After the general examination, the physician selects appropriate evaluation tools to further examine in depth. (Norris, et.al., 2016). The brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) images are widely used to diagnose neurological diseases including amnesia. The expensive cost of receiving the brain MR service causes the entire examination process to be relatively long and expensive in the United States (Shanker & Bhattacharya, 2021). It could be a burden for poor people and a waste of money if the individual mistakes himself/herself having amnesia. In addition, while examining the memory status, the physicians need to compare the information stated by patients to the one given by patients’ families. There is a high possibility of having incorrect evaluated results due to asymmetric or unequal information or perspectives. Asymmetric information occurs when the information given by the patients’ families is different from the patients’ acknowledgment because of different subjectivity towards the same event. In addition, the fact of synaptic pruning can be easily ignored and cause the result of misdiagnosis of amnesia (Miyoshi & Okada, 2004). In order to benefit both potential patients and psychiatric physicians, we would like to develop the amnesia evaluation application used on smart devices to help potential populations self-evaluate to see whether they may have amnesia. The easy-accessed evaluation application would lower the proportion of personal information. Instead, the application will focus on giving a new set of questions to all its user population to evaluate their function of short-term memory and long-term memory. The data of patients’ self-evaluations can also be a reference for the physicians to shorten the time of general mental status examination and move faster to the focused examination.