Want to Know if You Need Lifestyle Changes to Slow Down Alzheimer’s? A Group of Williamstown Seniors May be Using Their Phones for Clues—The Berkshire Eagle

Read article—Karen Fortuna, assistant professor of community and family medicine, and Vedan Taplivana '26, created an app for tracking Alzheimer's progression. The app, called RealVision, tracks how users interact with their phones, noting such changes as disoriented eye movement, difficulty with typing, or needing more time to respond to prompts. "Some of these patterns are quite nuanced and may not be easily noticeable to the human eye in real time," Fortuna said. "That's where computational approaches can help by detecting patterns across many small signals over time."