Objective:
To examine the cognitive load, emotional and behavioral responses with mild dementia experience when engaging with digital health information. We focus on four categories of digital health information: 1) dementia advocacy web page 2) Pseudoscience web page, 3) dementia blog, and 4) a medical article pertaining to medical food to treat Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.

Aim

• To determine the extent to which reading different presentations of digital dementia information results in higher cognitive load and perceived cognitive load between older adults and people with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or mild dementia.

• To investigate the effects of different types of digital dementia information on emotional responses of healthy older adults and people with MCI or mild dementia.

• To investigate the perceived credibility and trust in each of the digital dementia informational resources using Johnson’s trust in health information survey (Johnson, 2015).

Methodology

Part I: Have zoom call with participant and ask them to take the pre-study survey

Part II: Once the participant completes the pre-study survey, they can drop the zoom call and take the study on realeye.io platform. Here is the realeye study flow

Part III: After the participant completes the study, they can now take part in the interview over zoom.

Results

• There is no difference between PWD and OA regarding their viewing pattern​

• There is no difference between PWD and OA on being Ambient or Focal​

• PWD experience emotions more intensely​

• PWD exhibits more surprise emotion​

• There is difference in emotional response patterns between PWD and OA

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