Usable technology? Challenges in designing a memory aid with current electronic devices

Inglis, E. A.; Szymkowiak, Andrea; Gregor, Peter; Newell, Alan F.; Hine, Nick; Wilson, Barbara A.; Evans, Jonathan J.; Shah, Prveen

doi:10.1080/09602010343000129

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“…19 One series of studies has investigated the use of commercial pagers as the reminding component of electronic reminder systems for assisting with daily scheduling needs. 20 In pager-based systems, reminder content and timing information are typically entered by staff personnel into software running on remote servers.…”

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Electronic Reminding Technology Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Dowds

Lee

Sheer

et al. 2011

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

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Substantially higher rates of task completion (more than double in some cases) when using either PDA device suggest that rehabilitation clinicians can make productive use of PDA-based memory aids in their TBI patient populations. The strength of the effects of PDA device usage argues for further investigation of the impact of device usage on quality-of-life and costs of care, and of personal and caregiver factors predictive of successful and sustained device usage.

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Electronic Reminding Technology Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Dowds

Lee

Sheer

et al. 2011

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

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“…The increasing availability of new technology in recent years has contributed to an increased use of electronic memory aids such as pagers, computers with modified hardware and software, voice organizers, and mobile phones as important approaches to support persons with memory impairments (4,5). Several studies have shown that electronic memory aids are useful for persons with memory impairments.…”

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A training apartment with a set of electronic memory aids for patients with cognitive problems

Boman

Stenvall

Hemmingsson

et al. 2010

Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy

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The aims were to investigate whether patients with memory difficulties after acquired brain injury (ABI) are able to learn how to use a set of electronic memory aids integrated in a training apartment, and to use the same setting for identifying activities that these patients tend to forget among a predefined set of activities. This identification is done by using a computer system to register activities that are not performed, which the system is designed to act upon with reminders or alarms. During a stay of five days in the training apartment, 14 patients received training from an experienced occupational therapist to learn how to use the electronic memory aids. Significant improvements were found at group level in learning how to use the electronic memory aids. Computer registrations showed that the refrigerator and the stove were most challenging to remember. The total number of alarms and reminders as indication/measure of memory difficulties did not correlate with the Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test scores in the individuals. These findings indicate the importance of a stay in a training apartment to examine whether or not patients have difficulties in everyday activities and to try out electronic memory aids that might support these difficulties before they are discharged from the rehabilitation clinic.

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“…Beeps, which have been used in notification systems for people with memory problems (e.g., [7]), merely alert the user that something else requires attention. While speech can be more specific (e.g., [9]), it has its own problems-spoken messages are more intrusive, less private, and longer than brief sounds [11,12].…”

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Wolters

Isaac

Doherty

2012

CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Speech reminders can severely disrupt list recall. Spearcons, time-compressed speech messages, might be less disruptive because they are much shorter. In this study, we asked 24 younger participants to recall 64 short lists of digit, animal, food, or furniture names. List items were presented one at a time; the number of items presented depended on individual digit spans. Spearcons affected list recall to the same extent as speech. However, people with higher digit spans had significantly worse recall. This could be due to short-term memory overload or the longer presentation time of long lists. We discuss implications for menu design.

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Usable technology? Challenges in designing a memory aid with current electronic devices

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Electronic Reminding Technology Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Electronic Reminding Technology Following Traumatic Brain Injury

A training apartment with a set of electronic memory aids for patients with cognitive problems

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