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Designing assistive technologies for medication regimes in care settings

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This paper presents some early design work of the Care in the Digital Community research project begun under the EPSRC IRC Network project Equator. Gaining a comprehensive understanding of user requirements in care settings poses interesting methodological challenges. This paper details some methodological options for working in the domestic domain and documents the translation of research into design recommendations. We report on the importance of medication issues in a hostel for former psychiatric patients and present an early prototype of a medication manager designed to be sensitive to the particular requirements of the setting.

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  1. Department of Computing, Lancaster University, LA1 4YR, Lancaster, UK

    K. Cheverst, K. Clarke, G. Dewsbury, S. Kember & M. Rouncefield

  2. The School of Computer Science and IT, The University of Nottingham, NG8 1BB, Nottingham, UK

    T. Hemmings & T. Rodden

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Cheverst, K., Clarke, K., Dewsbury, G. et al. Designing assistive technologies for medication regimes in care settings. UAIS 2, 235–242 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-003-0055-9

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