Modelling mobile-based technology adoption among people with dementia

Priyanka Chaurasiaa, Sally I McClean, CD Nugent, I Cleland, Shuai Zhang, MP Donnelly, Bryan Scotney, Chelsea Sanders, Ken Smith, Maria C Norton, JoAnn Tschanz

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Abstract

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 of
modelling 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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)365-384
Number of pages20
JournalPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing
Volume26
Early online date3 May 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished online - 3 May 2021

Bibliographical note

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).

Keywords

  • Technology adoption
  • Medical history
  • Dementia
  • Reminder application
  • Assistive technologies

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