Abstract
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications, RFID-TA 2011 |
| Place of Publication | Piscataway, NJ, USA |
| Publisher | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| Pages | 244-251 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4577-0027-9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4577-0028-6, 978-1-4577-0028-6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications, RFID-TA 2011 - Sitges, Spain Duration: 15 Sep 2011 → 16 Sep 2011 |
Conference
| Conference | IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications, RFID-TA 2011 |
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| Abbreviated title | RFID-TA 2011 |
| Country | Spain |
| City | Sitges |
| Period | 15/09/11 → 16/09/11 |
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Keywords
- User study
- RFID
- NFC
- medication management
- older users
- vision impairment
- touch-based interaction
- audio interface
- usability test
- Finland
- Spain
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Touch- and audio-based medication management service concept for vision impaired older people. / Ervasti, Mari; Isomursu, Minna; Leibar, Igone Idigoras.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications, RFID-TA 2011. Piscataway, NJ, USA : IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers , 2011. p. 244-251.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review
TY - GEN
T1 - Touch- and audio-based medication management service concept for vision impaired older people
AU - Ervasti, Mari
AU - Isomursu, Minna
AU - Leibar, Igone Idigoras
N1 - Project code: 31171-WP5
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - A novel Near Field Communication (NFC) based solution to support medication management of vision impaired older users is presented in this paper. The service concept allows older users with vision impairments to manage their daily medications autonomously by providing them means to identify medicines and retrieve personal medication information. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of the concept, an early prototype called BlindNFC was implemented. It is a NFC-enabled PDA with a basic functionality of reading the medicine name and dosage information aloud by touching the medicine package. The service concept was tested and evaluated with user studies in Finland and Spain, where altogether 39 older people with varying level of problems with their sight and other functional abilities participated in the studies. Findings revealed that older users learned and used the basic functionality of touch- and audio-based system quite easily. A set of design issues to be taken into account was identified. Users showed a high degree of satisfaction in the use of the BlindNFC device, together with the solution it offers. They found potential value in the technology also in tagging and identifying other everyday physical objects than medicine packages and using their own self-recorded audio messages for marking objects. However, users were not currently willing to adopt the system for continuous use, as many of them had established over time methods for managing the medications, and were therefore observed reluctant to change these ways.
AB - A novel Near Field Communication (NFC) based solution to support medication management of vision impaired older users is presented in this paper. The service concept allows older users with vision impairments to manage their daily medications autonomously by providing them means to identify medicines and retrieve personal medication information. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of the concept, an early prototype called BlindNFC was implemented. It is a NFC-enabled PDA with a basic functionality of reading the medicine name and dosage information aloud by touching the medicine package. The service concept was tested and evaluated with user studies in Finland and Spain, where altogether 39 older people with varying level of problems with their sight and other functional abilities participated in the studies. Findings revealed that older users learned and used the basic functionality of touch- and audio-based system quite easily. A set of design issues to be taken into account was identified. Users showed a high degree of satisfaction in the use of the BlindNFC device, together with the solution it offers. They found potential value in the technology also in tagging and identifying other everyday physical objects than medicine packages and using their own self-recorded audio messages for marking objects. However, users were not currently willing to adopt the system for continuous use, as many of them had established over time methods for managing the medications, and were therefore observed reluctant to change these ways.
KW - User study
KW - RFID
KW - NFC
KW - medication management
KW - older users
KW - vision impairment
KW - touch-based interaction
KW - audio interface
KW - usability test
KW - Finland
KW - Spain
U2 - 10.1109/RFID-TA.2011.6068645
DO - 10.1109/RFID-TA.2011.6068645
M3 - Conference article in proceedings
SN - 978-1-4577-0028-6
SN - 978-1-4577-0028-6
SP - 244
EP - 251
BT - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications, RFID-TA 2011
PB - IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
CY - Piscataway, NJ, USA
ER -