Participatory Design of a Virtual Reality Exercise for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Eisapour, Mahzar; Cao, Shi; Domenicucci, Laura; Boger, Jennifer

doi:10.1145/3170427.3174362

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“…It is important to be aware of the heterogeneity in technology use abilities [12][13][14]. Involving end users in design and development of technology is especially important for the development of usable technology [15][16][17].…”

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Feasibility-Usability Study of a Tablet App Adapted Specifically for Persons with Cognitive Impairment—SMART4MD (Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia)

Quintana

Anderberg

Berglund

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Population ageing within Europe has major social and economic consequences. One of the most devastating conditions that predominantly affects older people is dementia. The SMART4MD (Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia) project aims to develop and test a health application specifically designed for people with mild dementia. The aim of this feasibility study was to evaluate the design of the SMART4MD protocol, including recruitment, screening, baseline examination and data management, and to test the SMART4MD application for functionality and usability before utilization in a full-scale study. The feasibility study tested the protocol and the app in Spain and Sweden. A total of nineteen persons with cognitive impairment, and their informal caregivers, individually performed a task-based usability test of the SMART4MD app model in a clinical environment, followed by four-week testing of the app in the home environment. By employing a user-centered design approach, the SMART4MD application proved to be an adequate and feasible interface for an eHealth intervention. In the final usability test, a score of 81% satisfied users was obtained. The possibility to test the application in all the procedures included in the study generated important information on how to present the technology to the users and how to improve these procedures.

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Feasibility-Usability Study of a Tablet App Adapted Specifically for Persons with Cognitive Impairment—SMART4MD (Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia)

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Berglund

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“…Or 2017), an improvement of kitchen environment usability (Ceccacci, Germani, and Mengoni 2012), serious games design(Eisapour et al 2018;Ahmed et al 2018;Levy et al 2016), design and use of virtual avatars (Carrasco Zuffi 2018), satisfaction in 360 • travel media(Srifar 2018), evaluation of complex environments exploration capacity(Morganti et al 2009), and examine the usability of a newly designed virtual reality environment(Fong et al 2010).What were the data analysis procedures? Among the 63 selected studies, 59 presented the adopted method of data analysis.The majority of the studies used statistical methods in their analyzes 35.…”

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Virtual reality for older users: a systematic literature review

Silva¹,

Mol²,

Ishitani³

2019

IJVR

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The use of technologies by the elderly is still restricted, especially concerning recent technologies. To better understand the older user experience, while using virtual reality technology, we performed a Systematic Literature Review. The databases selected for research were the digital libraries of ACM, IEEE, Science Direct and Google Scholar. During the literature review, we col- lected information about the characteristics of the participants of the studies selected, the experiences reported about the use of technology, the research method used, the technologies chosen for the tests, the results obtained and future work suggested. The main contributions of this work were to identify the state of art of virtual and augmented reality for older people, the possible applications of these technologies to them, the most used devices and also the considerations reported by previous experiences.

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“…There have been various efforts to overcome several of the technological barriers faced by users affected by specific impairments or limitations, that take into account their particular characteristics and needs (Newell and Gregor, 1997;Alm and Nakamura, 2001;Gregor et al, 2002;Eisapour et al, 2018). Fischer (2001) classified users into different types, with respect to particular needs and characteristics, and within various environments.…”

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Virtual reality-based cognitive healthcare interventions: User-centered design considerations, guidelines and framework

García-Betances¹,

Mf²,

Mta³

2019

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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________Design of computer-based non-pharmacological cognitive healthcare interventions for people afflicted by chronic neurodegenerative impairments must be soundly informed by and clearly centered on users' distinctive disabilities. In this article we present a use-oriented analysis of those cognitive interventions intended for healthcare of patients with Alzheimer's dementia and related disorders that use human-computer interaction based on virtual reality technology. The analysis identifies the most important strengths and weakness, and describes and assesses the main key opportunities and challenges inherent to the use of this type of cognitive healthcare interventions. The most critical specific usability concerns that considerably affect these interventions are described in order to be directly addressed during a user-centered design process. Significant evaluation issues that still trouble these interventions' general acceptance are also included. On the basis of this analysis, appropriate actions are recommended to help minimize accessibility and usability issues. Finally, concrete design guidelines, and a framework with its road map are proposed to direct the design process. The proposed framework's more outstanding features and functionalities are described in relation to user-centered design conceptualization, implementation and assessment. The use of a consistent usercentered design methodology, such as the one proposed here to tackle the main critical obstacles, could turn out to become the key that allows to achieve a substantial improvement of VR-based cognitive healthcare interventions effectiveness. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Keywords: Computerized cognitive healthcare, Virtual reality for healthcare, Non-pharmacological cognitive healthcare, Alzheimer's dementia.

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Participatory Design of a Virtual Reality Exercise for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Cited by 61 publications

References 22 publications

Feasibility-Usability Study of a Tablet App Adapted Specifically for Persons with Cognitive Impairment—SMART4MD (Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia)

Feasibility-Usability Study of a Tablet App Adapted Specifically for Persons with Cognitive Impairment—SMART4MD (Support Monitoring and Reminder Technology for Mild Dementia)

Virtual reality for older users: a systematic literature review

Virtual reality-based cognitive healthcare interventions: User-centered design considerations, guidelines and framework

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