Publications [#279732] of Farshid Guilak

Papers Published

1. Lundell, J; Hayes, TL; Vurgun, S; Ozertem, U; Kimel, J; Kaye, J; Guilak, F; Pavel, M, Continuous activity monitoring and intelligent contextual prompting to improve medication adherence., Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings (December, 2007), pp. 6287-6290, ISSN 1557-170X
   (last updated on 2019/06/30)

   Abstract:
   Poor medication adherence is a serious medical problem, particularly in older adults. Various solutions have been developed to remind people to take their medications, but these systems are usually simple time-based alarm systems that are not particularly effective. We describe a system that is context aware, and that utilizes information about past patterns of behavior plus the current context to provide prompts at the appropriate time and place. A case study from our initial deployment of the system to eleven older adults illustrates the possibilities and advantages of context aware prompting systems.