PIA - Practical support for everyday life results of the user tests

PIA (Personal IADL Assistant) aims to improve the everyday competencies of older people. It provides video instructions to help with operating everyday tasks or handling technologies in the household. User tests were conducted in order to analyse the usability, functionality and usefulness of the PIA prototype 2. Furthermore recommendations for improvement were collected. 24 caregivers and older people participated in this study. Caregivers had to record two or more videos and afterwards link them to NFC (Near Field Communication) tags. Older people had to fulfil the respective task recorded by their caregivers with the help of the video instruction. Results indicate that the PIA system is considered as a highly useful system. Nevertheless some problems occurred when interacting with the app on the tablet for both caregivers and older people. Results of these research activities are used to revise the PIA prototype 2, which will be evaluated in further tests.