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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2220
igaa057.2220
Abstracts
Session 5865 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Developing Digital Home Assistant User Guides for Older Adults With and Without Long-Term Mobility Disabilities
Kadylak Travis 1 Blocker Kenneth 1 Ramadhani Widya 2 Koon Lyndsie 3 Khaleghi Roshanak 1 Kovac Chris 1 Sreenivas Ramavarapu 1 Rogers Wendy 1 1 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States
3 
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”645 646
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
The aim of the current study was to understand how to integrate digital home assistant technologies and smart appliances into older adults’ homes by developing supportive user guides that facilitate adoption and continued use. We conducted a series of interviews among older adults, with and without mobility disabilities, to understand their attitudes towards digital assistants and to identify needs for instructional support and user guides. Subsequently, we developed and tested specific user guide modules for older adults aimed at addressing the identified concerns and desired instructional support. Specifically, we developed and field-tested user guides for the initial Amazon Echo device setup, basic device use (e.g., playing music and checking the weather), and separate modules for other domestic use cases (e.g., how to pair an Alexa enabled device with smart lights or appliances). Our results provide guidance for implementation of smart voice technologies to support older adults with long-term mobility disabilities.