Measuring the Use of the Active and Assisted Living Prototype CARIMO for Home Care Service Users: Evaluation Framework and Results
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Institute of Computer Sciences, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, 2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria
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Research Institute for Economics of Aging, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1020 Vienna, Austria
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Mobile and Web-based Information Systems, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft m.b.H., 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(1), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10010038
Received: 12 November 2019 / Revised: 12 December 2019 / Accepted: 17 December 2019 / Published: 19 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ambient Assisted Living and Cognitive Assistants)
To address the challenges of aging societies, various information and communication technology (ICT)-based systems for older people have been developed in recent years. Currently, the evaluation of these so-called active and assisted living (AAL) systems usually focuses on the analyses of usability and acceptance, while some also assess their impact. Little is known about the actual take-up of these assistive technologies. This paper presents a framework for measuring the take-up by analyzing the actual usage of AAL systems. This evaluation framework covers detailed information regarding the entire process including usage data logging, data preparation, and usage data analysis. We applied the framework on the AAL prototype CARIMO for measuring its take-up during an eight-month field trial in Austria and Italy. The framework was designed to guide systematic, comparable, and reproducible usage data evaluation in the AAL field; however, the general applicability of the framework has yet to be validated.
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Keywords:
active and assisted living; AAL; usage data; user interaction logging; framework for usage data evaluation
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Schneider, C.; Trukeschitz, B.; Rieser, H. Measuring the Use of the Active and Assisted Living Prototype CARIMO for Home Care Service Users: Evaluation Framework and Results. Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 38.
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