INTERACTIVE VOICE ASSISTANT ROUTINES: A USABILITY STUDY
Marcia Shade, Changmin Yan, Julie Blaskewicz Boron, Valerie Jones · 2023
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Marcia Shade and co-authors present a 2023 usability study on voice assistant routines for older adults in pain. Muscle and joint pain is common in later life and can isolate people. The team ran a 12-week pilot trial with 37 adults aged 60 or more who lived alone with chronic pain. Half got a standard routine, half an enhanced one, on a conversational voice device.
Morning routines were started more often than evening ones. The enhanced group started far more morning routines than the standard group. Pain fell across the whole sample by the end. The enhanced group rated usability as good, the standard group as merely okay. In the enhanced group, better usability scores predicted greater pain relief. Tailored routines may lift engagement further.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marcia Shade, Changmin Yan, Julie Blaskewicz Boron, Valerie Jones |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |