LIMITATIONS
While this pilot study does present interesting preliminary
results on the use of animated scenarios as an evaluation
tool, it is important to embrace its limitations. Doing so
will benefit future studies and strengthen the argument for
using animated scenarios. The following paragraphs serve
as descriptions for the limitations in this study.
Only four participants were recruited for this pilot study.
It can be argued that having such a low number of
participants does not fully reflect or represent the
diversity of older adults. Furthermore, this study did not
measure baseline attitudes of participant’s preference
towards emergency alarm pendants.