Usability and Acceptance of the Embodied Conversational Agent Anne by People With Dementia and Their Caregivers: Exploratory Study in Home Environment Settings

Vera Stara   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Benjamin Vera   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Daniel Bolliger   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Lorena Rossi   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Elisa Felici   ^{1 *} , PsyD ;   Mirko Di Rosa   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Michiel de Jong   ^{4 *} , MSc ;   Susy Paolini   ^{5 *} , PsyD

¹ Model of Care and New Technologies, IRCCS INRCA - National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing, Ancona, Italy

² iHomeLab - University of Applied Sciences & Arts, Lucerne, Switzerland

³ Unit of Geriatric Pharmacoepidemiology and Biostatistics, IRCCS INRCA - National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing, Ancona, Italy

⁴ Research Group IT Innovations in Healthcare, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Zwolle, Netherlands

⁵ Unit of Neurology, IRCCS INRCA - National Institute of Health and Science on Ageing, Ancona, Italy

*all authors contributed equally