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Exploring Amazon Echo Show for health, care and wellbeing for residents and carers

  • Funded by Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research
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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Funder

    Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research

  • Principal Investigator

    Aisling O'Kane

  • Research Location

    United Kingdom

  • Lead Research Institution

    N/A

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Social impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    Digital Health

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Adults (18 and older)Older adults (65 and older)

  • Vulnerable Population

    Unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

This study is reaching out to socially isolated older and vulnerable adults (so-called shielded groups) during COVID-19. The aim is to understand how voice assistants - in this case, the Amazon Echo Show is accepted and used in households that are socially isolating. The hope is that the outcomes of this research can provide society with insight into how voice assistants can support people with health and care needs, especially during a pandemic.