Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the Quality of Life (QOL-AD) scale

Michiel  de Jong; Marike Hettinga; Vera Stara; Vanessa  Evers; Jamy Jue Li

doi:10.1145/3341162.3343827

Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the Quality of Life (QOL-AD) scale

Michiel de Jong^*, Marike Hettinga, Vera Stara, Vanessa Evers, Jamy Jue Li

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Abstract

A large literature evaluates how virtual agents impact the lives of people with dementia using perceptions of technol- ogy. We assess how a home virtual agent from “Living Well with Anne” impacts the quality of life of elderly with de- mentia rather than only their perceptions of the technology. Assessing impact on life alongside technology perception is pertinent given the importance of a person’s perceived qual- ity of daily home life and that positive technology perception does not always lead to actual use. We propose an approach to evaluate assistive technology for elderly people with de- mentia by assessing impact on life using semi-structured interviews and the QOL-AD scale. A preliminary proof-of- concept study tests whether perceptions of a virtual agent, actual use of the agent and participants’ quality of life are related, and whether a virtual agent improves quality of life.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Pages	41-44
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-6869-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3343827
Publication status	Published - 9 Sept 2019
Event	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2019 - QEII Centre, London, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Sept 2019 → 13 Sept 2019 https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2019/

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Conference	ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2019
Abbreviated title	UbiComp 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	9/09/19 → 13/09/19
Other	Collocated with the ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'19)
Internet address	https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2019/

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de Jong, M., Hettinga, M., Stara, V., Evers, V., & Li, J. J. (2019). Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the Quality of Life (QOL-AD) scale. In UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 41-44) https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3343827

de Jong, Michiel ; Hettinga, Marike ; Stara, Vera et al. / Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the Quality of Life (QOL-AD) scale. UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. 2019. pp. 41-44

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de Jong, M, Hettinga, M, Stara, V, Evers, V & Li, JJ 2019, Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the Quality of Life (QOL-AD) scale. in UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. pp. 41-44, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2019, London, United Kingdom, 9/09/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341162.3343827

Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the Quality of Life (QOL-AD) scale. / de Jong, Michiel ; Hettinga, Marike; Stara, Vera et al.
UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. 2019. p. 41-44.

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de Jong M, Hettinga M, Stara V, Evers V, Li JJ. Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the Quality of Life (QOL-AD) scale. In UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. 2019. p. 41-44 doi: 10.1145/3341162.3343827

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