SocialMedicineBox: a communication system for the elderly using medicine box

Authors:
Hitomi Tsujita;Gregory D. Abowd
Affiliations:
Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan;Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous computing - Adjunct
Year:
2010

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Abstract

With a growing aging population, it has become a very important issue to monitor elderly people who are increasingly living alone and away from their families. Many research projects have explored this issue. However, these are mainly focused on one-way communication. In this paper, we proposed a new communication system for the elderly using a medicine chest. The "Social Medicine Box" is a system which notifies the status of the elderly taking medicines as well as their feeling a picture sent automatically to their family. The elderly can also get feedback and communicate with their family as well as their social network (e.g. Twitter and Facebook). In addition, it allows family members living apart to seamlessly share the information without the annoyance of having to initiate conversation.