title: Usability Study of a Wireless Monitoring System among Alzheimer's Disease Elderly Population.
abstract: Healthcare technologies are slowly entering into our daily lives, replacing old devices and techniques with newer intelligent ones. Although they are meant to help people, the reaction and willingness to use such new devices by the people can be unexpected, especially among the elderly. We conducted a usability study of a fall monitoring system in a long-term nursing home. The subjects were the elderly with advanced Alzheimer's disease. The study presented here highlights some of the challenges faced in the use of wearable devices and the lessons learned. The results gave us useful insights, leading to ergonomics and aesthetics modifications to our wearable systems that significantly improved their usability and acceptance. New evaluating metrics were designed for the performance evaluation of usability and acceptability.
authors: Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy.
authors: Stefano
authors: 0000-0002-4057-2084
authors: S
authors: Abbate
authors: Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, L. Lazzarino 1, 56122 Pisa, Italy.
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Avvenuti
authors: Department of Computer Science & Applied Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada E2L 4L5.
authors: Janet
authors: 0000-0002-0374-9864
authors: J
authors: Light