@ARTICLE{10.3389/fcomp.2021.804917, AUTHOR={Holloway, Catherine and Bhot, William and Yong, Keir X. X. and McCarthy, Ian and Suzuki, Tatsuto and Carton, Amelia and Yang, Biao and Serougne, Robin and Boampong, Derrick and Tyler, Nick and Crutch, Sebastian J. and Berthouze, Nadia and Cho, Youngjun}, TITLE={STEP-UP: Enabling Low-Cost IMU Sensors to Predict the Type of Dementia During Everyday Stair Climbing}, JOURNAL={Frontiers in Computer Science}, VOLUME={3}, YEAR={2022}, URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.804917}, DOI={10.3389/fcomp.2021.804917}, ISSN={2624-9898}, ABSTRACT={Posterior Cortical Atrophy is a rare but significant form of dementia which affects people's visual ability before their memory. This is often misdiagnosed as an eyesight rather than brain sight problem. This paper aims to address the frequent, initial misdiagnosis of this disease as a vision problem through the use of an intelligent, cost-effective, wearable system, alongside diagnosis of the more typical Alzheimer's Disease. We propose low-level features constructed from the IMU data gathered from 35 participants, while they performed a stair climbing and descending task in a real-world simulated environment. We demonstrate that with these features the machine learning models predict dementia with 87.02% accuracy. Furthermore, we investigate how system parameters, such as number of sensors, affect the prediction accuracy. This lays the groundwork for a simple clinical test to enable detection of dementia which can be carried out in the wild.} }