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. 2019 Feb 19;7(1):31. doi: 10.3390/healthcare7010031

Table 2.

A summary of the facilitators and barriers regarding using Zora in 2016.

Facilitators Mentioned Barriers Mentioned
  • Project leader’s meetings

  • Doing the project together/participation in the association of care-organizations in the Utrecht region (IVVU) project (peer support)

  • Instruction training by Zorabots

  • Availability of the helpdesk (phone/email)

  • Clients liked Zora’s activities.

  • Zora stimulates people to move.

  • Zora provides reactions from clients.

  • Preprogrammed dances and games are funny for the clients, and clients are actively involved.

  • Preprogrammed music makes residents reminisce.

  • Wi-Fi connection

  • Too complicated to program activities on Zora

  • Software updates of Zora composer

  • Start-up time

  • Battery life

  • Missing the virtual composer (a way to make programs without a connection with Zora)

  • Speech intelligibility and the interpretation by Zora of responses

  • Software failures (at the start of the project)

  • Experiencing time pressure

  • Few preprogrammed activities available

  • Communicating through Zora is difficult because you have to type the words on the composer at the same time (when you want to have a smooth conversation, you have to type very fast and without errors.).