Published on in Vol 9, No 6 (2021): June

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/25891, first published .
Usability and Acceptance of the Embodied Conversational Agent Anne by People With Dementia and Their Caregivers: Exploratory Study in Home Environment Settings

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

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

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