Title
Mobile reminder for flexible and safe medication schedule for home users
Abstract
iMAT is a system of automatic medication dispenser and software tools. It is for people who take medications on long term basis at home to stay well and independent. The system helps its users to improve rigor in compliance by preventing misunderstanding of medication directions and making medication schedules more tolerant to tardiness and negligence. Medication schedule manager in iMAT can be deployed either on standalone automatic, intelligent medication dispensers, or on computers and smart phones accompanied with traditional pillboxes. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of PROMUS and the results of a user experience study. PROMUS is a medication scheduler manager and reminder for modern smart phone devices. Similar to the scheduler for the iMAT dispenser, PROMUS scheduler takes into account both user preferences and medication directions in generation of flexible medication schedules and compliance enforcement. In particular, we focus on the interactions between the user and medication schedule manager to avoid medication errors. PROMUS schedules medication events to be more flexible and friendly by grouping the medication doses to reduce the number of times medications are to be taken and allow the user longer response time. PROMUS also provides intuitive, visually appealing user interface, clear organization, and familiar terminology that can be acted upon in conformity with the original behavior of medication record keeping.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21616-9_13
HCI (3)
Keywords
Field
DocType
promus schedules medication event,medication schedule manager,medication error,mobile reminder,medication record,safe medication schedule,medication direction,medication dose,automatic medication dispenser,flexible medication schedule,home user,intelligent medication dispenser,medication schedule
User experience design,Tardiness,Terminology,Computer science,Schedule,Human–computer interaction,Enforcement,User interface,Conformity,Medication Dispenser
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6763
0302-9743
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pei-Hsuan Tsai1253.25
Chi-Sheng Shih250866.29
Jane W.-S. Liu31399337.97