Abstract
This article describes a medication management service
concept for visually challenged older users. The service
transforms medication information into speech. This can
help visually challenged individuals to identify
medication, and to find dosage and other
consumption-related information. The user interface is
based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, which
makes it possible to write and read data in tags, which
can be attached to medication packages. A speech
synthesizer transforms the text stored in the tag into
audio message. A complete service covering the service
chain from pharmacy to user's home was implemented and
evaluated. Findings from a field trial are presented,
exploring how the service was adopted in the medication
management. The results show that, while the users found
the service easy to learn and use, they found the service
concept difficult to integrate with their existing
medication management practices
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | PervasiveHealth |
| Subtitle of host publication | 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare |
| Pages | 85-92 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2011 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 23 May 2011 → 26 May 2011 |
Conference
| Conference | 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare and Workshops, PervasiveHealth 2011 |
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| Country/Territory | Ireland |
| City | Dublin |
| Period | 23/05/11 → 26/05/11 |
Keywords
- Audio interface
- filed trial
- medication management
- NFC
- older users
- qualitative research
- RFID
- touch-based user interface
- touch-to-speech user interface
- universal access