TY - JOUR
T1 - Modelling mobile-based technology adoption among people with dementia
AU - Chaurasiaa, Priyanka
AU - McClean, Sally I
AU - Nugent, CD
AU - Cleland, I
AU - Zhang, Shuai
AU - Donnelly, MP
AU - Scotney, Bryan
AU - Sanders, Chelsea
AU - Smith, Ken
AU - Norton, Maria C
AU - Tschanz, JoAnn
N1 - Funding Information:
The Alzheimer’s Association is acknowledged for supporting the TAUT project under the research grant ETAC-12-242841. We thank the Pedigree and Population Resource of Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah (funded in part by the Huntsman Cancer Foundation) for its role in the ongoing collection, maintenance and support of the Utah Population Database (UPDB). We also acknowledge partial support for the UPDB through grant P30 CA2014 from the National Cancer Institute, University of Utah and from the University of Utah’s program in Personalized Health and Center for Clinical and Translational Science.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/5/3
Y1 - 2021/5/3
N2 - The work described in this paper builds upon our previous research on adoption modelling and aims to identify the best subset of features that could offer a better understanding of technology adoption. The current work is based on the analysis and fusion of two datasets that provide detailed information on background, psychosocial, and medical history of the subjects. In the process ofmodelling adoption, feature selection is carried out followed by empirical analysis to identify the best classification models. With a more detailed set of features including psychosocial and medical history information, the developed adoption model, using kNN algorithm, achieved a prediction accuracy of 99.41% when tested on 173 participants. The second-best algorithm built, using NN,achieved 94.08% accuracy. Both these results have improved accuracy in comparison to the best accuracy achieved (92.48%) in our previous work, based on psychosocial and self-reported health data for the same cohort. It has been found that psychosocial data is better than medical data for predicting technology adoption. However, for the best results, we should use a combination of psychosocial and medical data where it is preferable that the latter is provided from reliable medical sources, rather than self-reported.
AB - The work described in this paper builds upon our previous research on adoption modelling and aims to identify the best subset of features that could offer a better understanding of technology adoption. The current work is based on the analysis and fusion of two datasets that provide detailed information on background, psychosocial, and medical history of the subjects. In the process ofmodelling adoption, feature selection is carried out followed by empirical analysis to identify the best classification models. With a more detailed set of features including psychosocial and medical history information, the developed adoption model, using kNN algorithm, achieved a prediction accuracy of 99.41% when tested on 173 participants. The second-best algorithm built, using NN,achieved 94.08% accuracy. Both these results have improved accuracy in comparison to the best accuracy achieved (92.48%) in our previous work, based on psychosocial and self-reported health data for the same cohort. It has been found that psychosocial data is better than medical data for predicting technology adoption. However, for the best results, we should use a combination of psychosocial and medical data where it is preferable that the latter is provided from reliable medical sources, rather than self-reported.
KW - Technology adoption
KW - Medical history
KW - Dementia
KW - Reminder application
KW - Assistive technologies
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U2 - 10.1007/s00779-021-01572-x
DO - 10.1007/s00779-021-01572-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 35368316
SN - 1617-4909
VL - 26
SP - 365
EP - 384
JO - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
JF - Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
ER -