User Personas to Guide Technology Intervention Design to Support Caregiver-Assisted Medication Management

dc.contributor.authorLinden, Anna
dc.contributor.authorLoganathar, Priya
dc.contributor.authorHolden, Richard
dc.contributor.authorBoustani, Malaz
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Noll
dc.contributor.authorGanci, Aaron
dc.contributor.authorWerner, Nicole
dc.contributor.departmentHerron School of Art
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-26T19:47:33Z
dc.date.available2023-10-26T19:47:33Z
dc.date.issued2022-11
dc.description.abstractInformal caregivers often help manage medications for people with ADRD. Caregiver-assisted medication management has the potential to optimize outcomes for caregivers and people with ADRD, but is often associated with suboptimal outcomes. We used the user-centered design persona method to represent the needs of ADRD caregivers who manage medications for people with ADRD to guide future design decisions for technology interventions. Data were collected through virtual contextual inquiry in which caregivers (Nf24) sent daily multimedia text messages depicting medication management activities for seven days each, followed by an interview that used the messages as prompts to understand medication management needs. We applied the persona development method to the data to identify distinct caregiver personas, i.e., evidence-derived groups of prospective users of a future intervention. We used team-based affinity diagramming to organize information about participants based on intragroup (dis)similarities, to create meaningful clusters representing intervention-relevant attributes. We then used group consensus discussion to create personas based on attribute clusters. The six identified attributes differentiating personas were: 1. medication acquisition, 2. medication organization, 3. medication administration, 4. monitoring symptoms, 5. care network, 6. technology preferences. Three personas were identified based on differences on those attributes: Regimented Ruth (independent, proactive, tech savvy, controls all medications), Intuitive Ian (collaborative, uses own judgment, some technology, provides some medication autonomy), Passive Pamela (reactive, easy going, technology novice, provides full medication autonomy). These personas can be used to guide technology intervention design by evaluating how well intervention designs support each of them.
dc.eprint.versionFinal published version
dc.identifier.citationLinden, A., Loganathar, P., Holden, R., Boustani, M., Campbell, N., Ganci, A., & Werner, N. (2022). User Personas to Guide Technology Intervention Design to Support Caregiver-Assisted Medication Management. Innovation in Aging, 6(Supplement_1), 767. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.2780
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/36734
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherOxford
dc.relation.isversionof10.1093/geroni/igac059.2780
dc.relation.journalInnovation in Aging
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.sourcePublisher
dc.subjectinformal caregivers
dc.subjectADRD
dc.subjectmedication management
dc.subjectuser-centered design
dc.subjectcaregiver personas
dc.titleUser Personas to Guide Technology Intervention Design to Support Caregiver-Assisted Medication Management
dc.typeArticle
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