Usability questionnaires for telemonitoring and assistive technology for cognition for older adults: a rapid review

Telemonitoring and assistive technology for cognition (ATC) for older adults living with cognitive impairments have grown over the last 10 years. Usability testing is a key step in the development and implementation of such technologies. However, there are no recommendations to date on the preferred questionnaires for measuring usability with this clientele. The aims of this study are: 1) to document existing usability questionnaires addressing technology and 2) to determine if these questionnaires can be used with older adults with cognitive impairments. The rapid review approach, a type of knowledge synthesis, was used. A search of articles (between 2000 and 2018) was conducted on MEDLINE, CINAHL, Pubmed and Google Scholar. The inclusion criteria were: (1) experimental studies/reviews; (2) article written on French/English; (3) include a description of usability questionnaires in the method section and (4) discuss the use of technologies with older adults. The analysis of the results was done according to ISO standard and HAAT criteria to determine the congruence of these tests with older adults living with cognitive impairments. A total of 20 articles were selected and 16 usability tests were identified. None of these questionnaires met all the criteria for measuring usability for ATC/telemonitoring technologies with this clientele. This demonstrates the need to develop an adapted version of the available tests to match the specific needs of this clientele. In this sample-structured document, neither the cross-linking of float elements and bibliography nor metadata/copyright information is available. The sample document is provided in "Draft" mode and to view it in the final layout format, applying the required template is essential with some standard steps.