Designing an Interactive Messaging and Reminder Display for Elderly

Veldhoven, Erwin R.; Vastenburg, Martijn H.; Keyson, David V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89617-3_9

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“…Even though smart phones were versatile and could support a range of applications to perform the reminder and/or feedback functions, they failed to penetrate satisfactorily into a general population of senior Thai citizens. Evidences from several other studies [8][13] [14][16] [17,18] further suggested that most elders now (at least sixty years old in year 2010, i.e. the baby boomer generation) either did not own smart phone devices or would reject them or feel intimidated by them.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As non-smart phone capabilities are mostly limited to voice and message communication with little support for portable and customizable applications, the proposed architectural design takes a client-server approach to allow for needed processing requirements to be carried out by a cluster of more powerful serversleaving a non-smart phone to behave as a thin client responsible only for what it does best: voice and message communication. To better leverage the voice and message features of non-smartphone, VoIP and SMS technologies are integrated into the proposed design to allow the elders to receive a communication in a familiar form of voice and messages which would further enhance perceived ease of use [17] [18] and could result in the elders to better accept the system [4]. Use of VoIP as a communication means in particular, provides an added benefit in that it can be used with landline telephone units as well.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Design of a medication reminder and feedback system for Thai elders

Ronglong

Sookplang

Arpnikanondt

et al. 2012

2012 International Conference on Computer &Amp; Information Science (ICCIS)

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Thailand is well on the way to her ageing society status. More Thai elders eventually will experience chronic diseases that come with old age. Along with such diseases, come various medication regimens to intrude upon their lifelong habits and medication-independent lifestylesa challenge to many elders, where failure to maintain prescribed schedule could result in faster health deterioration. This paper proposes a design of a medication reminder and feedback system specifically targeting a wider population of elderly users. The design addresses the usability issues among most non-ICT Thai elders and ensures a wider reach to the targeted senior population by basing the core component design on nonsmart-phone platforms. The proposed architecture incorporates a combination of an automated process technique, Voice over IP, SMS and web services to devise an effective reminder and feedback solution for both the Thai elders and supervising healthcare professionals. The resultant design is flexible, efficient, and could facilitate future changes.[ 49 ]

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design of a medication reminder and feedback system for Thai elders

Ronglong

Sookplang

Arpnikanondt

et al. 2012

2012 International Conference on Computer &Amp; Information Science (ICCIS)

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“…Moreover, elderly people are dependent on reminder system such as calendar alerts because they are aware that they tend to forget things easily [28]. In the healthcare system, medical reminder is an important feature for elderly people such as to remind them to take medication at the proper time [29]. A study by Paggetti and Tamburini [30] on home care services stated that reminder system should be installed in mobile phones in order to remind elderly people to take medication.…”

Section: ) Reminder Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leisure Technology for the Elderly: A Survey, User Acceptance Testing and Conceptual Design

Theng¹,

Sagadevan²,

Malim³

2017

ijacsa

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Abstract-The Alzheimer's disease damages neuronal and synaptic system due to the high level of amyloid beta in the brain. It is the common cause of dementia which is more common to afflict the elderly where they will gradually loss their memory and communication skills as well as deterioration of thinking and reasoning ability. Hence, it is crucial for elderly people to monitor their cognitive performance consistently and continuously to detect the Alzheimer's symptoms, such as dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment. There are many technologies that have been established in healthcare for its detection; however, such technologies, mostly medical treatments could not be self-catered by elderly on daily basis and in fact the use of this technology incurs cost each time. Therefore, this study looks at an alternative technology called leisure technology that allows access to the elderly every day at home in an enjoyable and relaxing manner. The aim of this study is to study applications of leisure activities that could stimulate brain cognitive function to be turned to a leisure technology application. Prior to proposing the conceptual design of this application, a user acceptance study of leisure technology among elderly people has been conducted. This study involves interviews and survey through distribution of questionnaires. The survey results shows that 90% of the participants stated that there was an improvement in cognitive abilities after using leisure technology and 98.4% of the participants stated that they could adapt to leisure technology. On the other hand, the outcomes from the interview show that they agreed that different types of leisure technology provide heterogeneous benefits, which can improve their cognitive abilities. Finally, this study proposes a conceptual design for leisure technology application that elderly people can adapt to.

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“…The systems have certain value, but they indeed focus on caregivers more than on care-receivers. [5] To deliver technologies perceived as beneficial by elderlies, the designers have to hold back of technology and adopt users' patterns of thinking [6]. Smart and potentially beneficial systems may be accepted reluctantly or even refused, if designers neglect the real needs.…”

Section: The Elderlies and Their Needsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kano [11] has brought marketing technique used for measuring customer content, known as kano satisfaction model. Products should be designed to be joy to own and use them, the pleasurability acts as a highly important prerequisite of acceptability [6]. Even appliance with usually negative appeal may be accepted if designed with emotions in mind, as shown in experiment with wheel-chair.…”

Section: Emotions-driven Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%