Rationale and Methods of Evaluation for ACHO, A New Virtual Assistant to Improve Therapeutic Adherence in Rural Elderly Populations: A User-Driven Living Lab

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

卷:18

Borja Rivero-Jiménez¹  Inmaculada Ballesteros-Yáñez²  Lorenzo Mariano-Juárez³  David Conde-Caballero³  Jeronimo Luengo-Polo³  Carlos A. Castillo-Sarmiento⁴ 

[1] Department of Computer Systems and Telematics, Polytechnic School, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain;

[2] Department of Inorganic, Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain;

[3] Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing & Occupational Therapy, University of Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain;

[4] Regional Center for Biomedical Research, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 02008 Albacete, Spain;

关键词: active assisted living program;    adherence;    e-Health;    living lab;    voice assistant;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph18157904

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Low therapeutic adherence is a concern for health professionals as it decreases therapeutic efficiency while increasing costs, especially in elderly populations. To increase therapeutic adherence in elderly populations, the technology applied in the medical devices that are used must be adapted to improve usability. This paper outlines the rationale behind, and methods applied to assess the usability of, ACHO (Assistant on Care and Health Offline), a voice assistant that provides elderly patients with reminders of medical appointments to attend and when they need to take their medication. This work is a descriptive, cross-sectional, observational study, and will include a three-phase (analysis, testing and refinement) multidimensional usability analysis of an initial prototype, in the setting of a user-driven Living Lab, which enables the needs and characteristics of the end users to be identified and incorporated into the prototype with each iteration, in which a multidisciplinary team of researchers and users will participate as co-creators. This methodology will allow us to develop a better prototype, increasing usability and, thus, increasing therapeutic adherence.

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