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PMD: Designing a Portable Medicine Dispenser for Persons Suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2010)

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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.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Roel de Beer, Roy Keijers & Suleman Shahid

  2. Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Abdullah Al Mahmud & Omar Mubin

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic San Francisco, CA 94117, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

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de Beer, R., Keijers, R., Shahid, S., Al Mahmud, A., Mubin, O. (2010). PMD: Designing a Portable Medicine Dispenser for Persons Suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_53

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