Proactive medication assistances based on spatiotemporal context awareness of aged persons.
In this paper, we developed a system that could assist appropriate activities for medication adherence of the elderly. It employs a proactive knowledge which is represented as templates predefined for their medication activities. The knowledge-based assistance depends on the contexts considerably, which the system can recognize by continuously monitoring the current position and the time-schedule for their medications. The monitoring is performed with ultrasonic sensors and infrared sensors mounted in a display and a pillbox mainly. According to the recognized contexts, the medication activities can he serviced through old person-friendly multimedia display. In special, since the knowledge is well-defined by XML, only its content modification can provide a variety of services individually customized to the elderly.
Choi
Jae-Hun
JH
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRl), Korea. jhchoi@etri.re.kr
Lim
Myung-Eun
ME
Kim
Dae-Hee
DH
Park
Soo-Jun
SJ
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004360:Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D017010:Reminder Systems; D014584:User-Computer Interface