Using Conversational Agents to Support Medication Adherence and Facilitate Coordination Between Dyads of Older Adults with MCI and their Care Partners

Faculty: 
Elizabeth D. Mynatt
Students: 
Niharika Mathur, Kunal Dhodapkar

We aim to understand how conversational agents such as the Google Home can be used to help members with Mild Cognitive Impairment and their care partners in adhering to their medication routines with the help of scheduling features of the Google Home.

Lab: 
Director: 
Beth Mynatt

We introduce a new area of interaction research, everyday computing, by focusing on scaling ubiquitous computing with respect to time. Our motivations for everyday computing stem from wanting to support the informal and unstructured activities typical of much of our everyday lives. Our goal is understanding the transformation of everyday life as computing is ubiquitously integrated into informal, daily activities and routines.