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Evaluating the Acceptance of a Software Application Designed to Assist Communication for People with Parkinson’s Disease

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects a huge number of people. People with PD may have trouble speaking. Impeded speech affects 70% of people with PD and this can have particularly harmful consequences linked to social exclusion and isolation. Considering this context, we have been working for the last three years in the development of a software application to assist people with PD to communicate with others. To assure the use and adoption of this application an evaluation of its acceptance was carried out. To that end the Unified Theory of Acceptance of Use of Technology (UTAUT) was applied. The results showed acceptation of the application for people with PD that has serious problems of communication. This paper presents this evaluation from its design to the discussion of the results.

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Acknowledgements

The authors warmly thank all participants who took time to assist in the development and evaluation of the ParkinsonCom application. This project is supported by the European regional development fund, FEDER (Interreg V France-Wallonie-Vlaanderen) and the Agency for quality life AVIQ (l’Agence pour une Vie de Qualité), Belgium, to which the are are deeply grateful.

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    Julia Greenfield, Káthia Marçal de Oliveira, Véronique Delcroix, Sophie Lepreux & Christophe Kolski

  2. Lille University Hospital Center - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, Rue André Verhaeghe, 59000, Lille, France

    Anne Blanchard-Dauphin

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Greenfield, J., de Oliveira, K.M., Delcroix, V., Lepreux, S., Kolski, C., Blanchard-Dauphin, A. (2023). Evaluating the Acceptance of a Software Application Designed to Assist Communication for People with Parkinson’s Disease. In: Abdelnour Nocera, J., Kristín Lárusdóttir, M., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14142. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42280-5_10

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