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While the European population is aging, the number of people with dementia is dramatically rising. With this comes an increased need for products that help affected people to be more independent and able to live in their own home for as long as possible. ESticky addresses this need by providing a sophisticated reminder system that replaces the old-fashioned sticky-notes by electronic versions thereof, which can be programmed from near and far in a device-independent manner via the internet and using a standard web browser. For this purpose, a set of low-cost ePaper-displays are used, accompanied by a small and unobtrusive base station. The displays can be placed at several strategically useful places in a user’s home, to enable users and/or care persons to place reminders that will, based on the user’s daily routines, most probably be read. Active displays even enable the user to press a confirmation button to show that he or she has actually read the reminder. The system is developed using a user centred design approach, to take all stakeholders’ wishes and needs into account, in order to come up with a system that is easy to use and provides good service to many people.
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This work is supported by the European Commission as part of the eSticky EU project funded by the Active Assisted Living (AAL) Programme Call 2019–under grant agreement no aal-2019-6-179-CP, and by FFG (Austria), RIF (Cyprus), NCBR (Poland) and MIUR (Italy).
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Fixl, L. et al. (2021). eSticky–An Advanced Remote Reminder System for People with Early Dementia. In: Pissaloux, E., Papadopoulos, G.A., Achilleos, A., Velázquez, R. (eds) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing. IHAW 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1538. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94209-0_10
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