Aging Adults' Motivation to Use Embodied Conversational Agents in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living: Results of Latent Profile Analysis.

ABSTRACT: The rapidly increasing share of ageing adults in the population drives the need and interest in assistive technology, as it has the potential to support ageing individuals in living independently and safely. However, technological development rarely reflects how needs, preferences, and interests develop in different ways while ageing. It often follows the strategy of "what is possible" rather than "what is needed" and "what preferred". As part of personalized assistive technology, embodied conversational agents (ECAs) can offer mechanisms to adapt the technological advances with the stakeholders' expectations. The present study explored the motivation among ageing adults regarding technology use in multiple domains of activities of daily living. Participants responded to the questionnaire

SUBMITTER: Smrke U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8872482 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature