Usability inspection methods
Heuristic evaluation of ambient displays
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CoBuild '98 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings, Integrating Information, Organization, and Architecture
A model for notification systems evaluation—assessing user goals for multitasking activity
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
A toolkit for managing user attention in peripheral displays
Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
A taxonomy of ambient information systems: four patterns of design
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Supporting the strategies to improve elders' medication compliance by providing ambient aids
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Persuasive pillboxes: improving medication adherence with personal digital assistants
PERSUASIVE'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Persuasive technology for human well-being
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AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) aims to extend the time elderly can live in their home environment by assisting them in carrying out activities of daily living (ADLs). Designers of AAL must not only consider the needs and problems that elders face when carrying out their ADLs, but that elders are characterized by presenting a natural cognitive decline, their attention levels are diminished and that they may consider that new technologies are complex to use. Considering these characteristics of elders, we propose Ambient Information Systems (AIS) as the appropriate technology to assist elders, since they are aesthetically pleasing applications which provide users with abstract representations of valued information. The aim of this work was to identify the design issues that should be addressed for developing AIS that effectively assist elderly with their ADLs. To reach this end, we designed mobile and embedded AIS that help elderly to manage their medication, since it is one of the critical ADLs for enabling "ageing in place". As a result of designing AIS, we identified a set of design attributes that were validated and extended through inspection evaluations with Computer Science and Health professionals.