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"Computerized Assistance for Self-Care"
Abstract: Self-care is essential for older adults to remain independent in their homes and includes maintaining a healthy lifestyle and use of home medical devices. Due to the importance of available mental resources, those with more resources should be able to learn new system concepts for self-care. However, when few resources are available, more directive content may be preferable. In a current study, we investigated which types of dialogue styles were of most assistance in diabetes management. Two styles were compared; adaptive and fixed. Fixed dialogue always cooperated with the participant while adaptive dialogue changed from cooperative to directive when a health-critical situation occurred. In this way the system supported people at different levels of cognitive resource availability. Results from this study have important implications for the design of computerized self-care assistants as well as learning theory. |
