The Minimal Effective Dose of Reminder Technology

Maria K. Wolters

doi:10.1145/2559206.2578878

The Minimal Effective Dose of Reminder Technology

Maria K. Wolters

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Remembering to take one's medication on time is hard work. This is true for younger people with no chronic illness as well as older people with many co-morbid conditions that require a complex medication regime. Many technological solutions have been proposed to help with this problem, but is more IT really the solution? In this paper, I argue that technological help should be limited to the minimal effective dose, which depends on the person and their living situation, and may well be zero.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM
Pages	771-780
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-2474-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2578878
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

alerts, ehealth, medication, reminders, telecare

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10.1145/2559206.2578878

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2559206.2578878

MMH: MultimemoHome: Multimodal reminders within the home
Renals, S. & Wolters, M.
EPSRC
1/09/09 → 28/02/13
Project: Research

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