PMD: designing a portable medicine dispenser for persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease

Authors:
Roel de Beer;Roy Keijers;Suleman Shahid;Abdullah Al Mahmud;Omar Mubin
Affiliations:
Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands;Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Venue:
ICCHP'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computers helping people with special needs: Part I
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper we present the user-centred design of a medicine dispenser for persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The prototype was evaluated in two phases with two caregivers and two Alzheimer's patients. Caregivers evaluated the device positively. The Alzheimer's patients faced usability problems while completing tasks due to the virtual interaction medium of the medicine dispenser. However, patients and caregivers found the concept useful for medication intake.