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While consumer digital calendars are widely used for appointment reminders, they do not fulfill all of the compensatory functions that are supported by calendars designed for cognitive rehabilitation therapies (CRTs). To inform the development of digital compensatory solutions, we employed a Distributed Cognition framework to elucidate how older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and their care partners manage calendaring details when supported by a traditional rehabilitation calendar. Participants mapped out their calendaring cognitive systems, composed of people and artifacts, completed a chart detailing how they track specific types of information, and shared calendaring strategies with each other. We used a Distributed Cognition framing to articulate information flows and breakdowns in participants’ calendaring systems, and we identified groups of participants with similar breakdowns in their calendaring systems. We close by suggesting design recommendations for digital calendaring approaches to support dyads of older adults with MCI and their care partners.
Supported by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
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Zubatiy, T. et al. (2023). A Distributed Cognition Approach to Understanding Compensatory Calendaring Cognitive Systems of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Their Care Partners. In: Bravo, J., Urzáiz, G. (eds) Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2023). UCAmI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 835. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48306-6_19
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