What to Expect

Daily conversation with a voice-based chatbot or recording a daily audio diary (we will assign which one), min. 5 minutes.

Short survey and cognitive tasks (around 15 minutes) at the start and end of the study (week 1 and week 4), and two additional 5–10 minute surveys in between.

About the Study

Research Supervisor: Dr. Lesley Schimanski
Research Focus: impact of technological talk intervention
Study purpose: test how brief, daily audio diaries or voice chatbot interaction can impact a population of adults 65+
Time commitment: minimum of 5 minutes/day for 4 weeks and ~10-15 minutes each week (4×) for surveys and tasks
Eligibility: English speaking Canadian or US adults 65+ who live alone with access to a smartphone or tablet and internet
Compensation: Completion Certificate
Privacy: participation is voluntary; you can withdraw anytime up until completing the last survey (after which your survey data will be anonymized); talk data (voice-based chatbot or voice recorder data) stored on US servers, which means this data cannot be garantueed to be private; survey data stored on Canadian servers
Contact: nicolaskoch@my.capilanou.ca · (236)808-4099

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Regarding your data during this study

Here is an overview of what happens to your talk data during the study:

Voice Recorder daily diaries - What you talk about with the Voice Recorder will be stored on your phone or tablet. The research team will not have insight into this audio. After the study, you are welcome to delete this data if you like, or you can keep it.

Voice-based chatbot talks - What you talk about with the voice-based chatbot will eventually be transcribed into text by the app, and stored on the companies (OpenAI) servers in the US, at least until 30 days after you either delete the chat, or delete the account (we will provide a guide on how to do it). The research team will not have insight or control over this data. Further, the data may be used by OpenAI to train their models, unless you opt-out (the research team will provide you with a detailed step-by-step guide on how to opt-out).

Location of servers & privacy laws - Any data associated with the voice-based chatbot talk (and, depending on your device and backup settings, possibly your daily diary recordings) that is stored on computer servers located outside Canada is not protected by Canadian privacy legislation, and may be accessed by the U.S. government since it is subject to the U.S. Patriot Act (see OpenAI’s Privacy Policy). Further, withdrawal from the study can not garantuee deletion of your voice-based chatbot talk data!

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About the Study

The Researcher: Nicolas M. Koch

Research Supervisor: Dr. Lesley Schimanski

Regarding your data during this study