A Scoping Review of the Inquiry Instruments Being Used to Evaluate the Usability of Ambient Assisted Living Solutions

Rute Bastardo, João Pavão, Nelson Pacheco Rocha

2022

Abstract

This paper reports a scoping review of the literature to identify the inquiry instruments being used to evaluate the usability of AAL solutions, which resulted in the inclusion of 35 studies. The results show that a significant number of the included studies reported the use of non-valid inquiry instruments, such as ad-hoc questionnaires. Among the studies using valid and reliable inquiry instruments, System Usability Scale (SUS) emerged as the most used one. In general, valid and reliable inquiry instruments are being used together with additional data gathering methods, to perform comprehensive usability evaluations. Moreover, in terms of the quality of the design of the included studies, it should be pointed the adequacy of the participants’ characteristics and the tasks they performed. In turn, these studies did not present evidence of the preparation and independence of the evaluators.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bastardo R., Pavão J. and Rocha N. (2022). A Scoping Review of the Inquiry Instruments Being Used to Evaluate the Usability of Ambient Assisted Living Solutions. In Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-552-4, SciTePress, pages 320-327. DOI: 10.5220/0010766600003123

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf22,
author={Rute Bastardo and João Pavão and Nelson Pacheco Rocha},
title={A Scoping Review of the Inquiry Instruments Being Used to Evaluate the Usability of Ambient Assisted Living Solutions},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2022},
pages={320-327},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010766600003123},
isbn={978-989-758-552-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2022) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - A Scoping Review of the Inquiry Instruments Being Used to Evaluate the Usability of Ambient Assisted Living Solutions
SN - 978-989-758-552-4
AU - Bastardo R.
AU - Pavão J.
AU - Rocha N.
PY - 2022
SP - 320
EP - 327
DO - 10.5220/0010766600003123
PB - SciTePress