Center for Research
and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement
CREATE Principal
Investigators
The CREATE project at FSU has three components: Older
GOMS Toolbox, Cognitive Training Toolbox, and two collaborative projects:
Effective Software Training, and Mobile Monitoring.
The
goals of our research and collaborative projects are to create tools and
training techniques to promote cognition and health in older adults. Research Project 1 (Older GOMS Toolbox) will
use meta-analytic techniques to generate valid information processing
parameters for modeling older adult performance and to create a toolbox that
the engineering and design community can use for GOMS modeling when designing
technology products. We also aim to improve
the reliability of task analysis and modeling with these tools. We also will extend such models to predict
error rates in addition to task completion times. These tools will also be deployed to model
devices and software in our collaborative projects. Research Project 2 (Cognitive Training
Toolbox) will use simple handheld systems to promote basic cognitive
abilities. The specific aim is to
promote a broad set of abilities --memory, attention, and executive control --
with a well-integrated intervention based on experimental evidence of efficacy. Collaborative Project 1 (Effective software
training) investigates training techniques to promote efficient use by older
novice adults of a simple web-based e-mail client from partner Commino. We will
evaluate a combined cognitive and emotional training intervention by
incorporating stress reduction techniques developed in CREATE II to aid
learners in combination with theoretically-motivated training techniques
(spaced retrieval, delayed self-tests). Collaborative Project 2 (Mobile
monitoring) assesses the privacy/confidentiality preferences and
acceptability/comfort of a wrist-worn wireless monitoring device designed for
community-dwelling older adults by partner AFrame
Digital. The device registers and
transmits continuous vital sign data (e.g., blood pressure, pulse/ox, fall
detection). Experimental studies will
determine what type of reporting interface enables older adults to make rapid
and accurate evaluations of health status.
The goals are to improve functionality and acceptability of mobile
monitoring devices for older health care users.
We will also be contributing to theory about cognition and aging through
the use of our cross-site cognitive assessment battery and our participation in
the cross-site field trial testing a personalized reminder information and
social management system (PRISM).
To learn more about CREATE and access reprints and
preprints from our research see: http://www.create-center.org
