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User Centered Design of a Pill Dispenser for the Elderly

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The demographic change facing Germany and Europe leads to a growing importance of user-centered products for the elderly. Especially the increase of patient multimorbidity leads to a growing necessity of future healthcare solutions. In terms of medication management, a lack of reliable pill intake support for the elderly can be observed. This research project develops an approach for a fully automated pill management system. Special focus in this contribution lies on the user-centered design process for the elderly.

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Acknowledgments

The presented research is funded by Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM). The goal of the 2 years research project is to develop an age-appropriate pill management system by combining hardware and software system components, which make it possible to considerably improve the medication management of multimorbid people.

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  1. Institute for Engineering Design and Industrial Design (IKTD), Department of Industrial Design Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Florian Reichelt, Peter Schmid & Thomas Maier

  2. Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering (IAS), University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 47, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Nada Sahlab, Nasser Jazdi-Motlagh & Michael Weyrich

  3. CompWare Medical GmbH, Robert-Bunsen-Straße 4, 64579, Gernsheim, Germany

    Gerd Meyer-Philippi, Günter Kalka & Manfred Matschke

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Correspondence to Florian Reichelt .

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  1. Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Tareq Ahram

  2. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  3. Department of Computer Science, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany

    Stefan Pickl

  4. Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, Reims Cedex 2, France

    Redha Taiar

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Reichelt, F. et al. (2020). User Centered Design of a Pill Dispenser for the Elderly. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Pickl, S., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Systems Engineering and Design II. IHSED 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1026. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_106

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