Digital memory notebook: experimental evaluation of motivational reward strategies

Abstract

Prompting technology can help individuals with cognitive impairments complete independent activities of daily living (IADL). Although the prompt delivery is an effective way to remind an adult to record a completed activity, this potential benefit may not be sufficient to motivate the adult to comply with the prompt on a consistent basis. In this work we extend activity-aware prompting techniques to utilize alternative reward structures. Our reward mechanism will allow adults to observe game progress as a result of their decisions to comply with the prompts. In our study with volunteer participants, the activity-aware reward-based prompting method increased the compliance rate compared to activity-aware prompting without rewarding the adults.