Analyzing Cognitive Flexibility in Older Adults Through Playing with Robotic Cubes

Margarida Romero (1)

1 COMUE UCA - COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019)

Cognitive flexibility is an important ability to adapt to changing situations. We consider the evolution of technologies in the digital era as a changing situation requiring the individuals to maintain a certain cognitive flexibility. Across the lifespan, cognitive flexibility is an essential ability to adapt to a continuous evolution of human-computer interactions (HCI). In this study, we observe older adults in a playful robotic task aiming to observe their cognitive flexibility in order to consider if older adults shows an adequate level of cognitive flexibility to solve a problem solving task with unknown robotic cubes. The playful robotic task engages the participants individually in problem solving a puzzle-based challenge with modular robotics.

Mots clés: Cognitive flexibility; Robotics; Lifelong learning; Human-computer interactions; Problem solving

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Informatique; Psychologie; Education

Margarida Romero. Analyzing Cognitive Flexibility in Older Adults Through Playing with Robotic Cubes. Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Social Media, Games and Assistive Environments, pp.545-553, 2019, 978-3-030-22015-0. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-22015-0_42⟩. ⟨hal-02181080⟩