UbiPILL A Medicine Dose Controller of Ubiquitous Home Environment

Abstract

Within the home domain, an outcome of successfully implemented ubiquitous computing is expected to feature an ever-present and – most importantly, convenient to use – ubiquitous home environment. Home automation and wireless sensor networks, as ubiquitous integrations of technology and services at home, are enhancing the quality of life by improved security, information and comfort. We have defined a centric UbiHOMESERVER with three main roles: use of existing interfaces on proprietary systems for remote monitoring and control, serving the surrounding system as a data gateway and providing content-adaptive user interfaces optimised by properties of end-user client devices. Throughout the entire environment, the goal of user interface design is to keep the interaction experience of an end-user as simple and intuitive as possible. In this paper, we present the design of a medicine dose controller, which is our on-going research and development prototype aiming to accomplish this goal. As a ubiquitous device, UbiPILL is targeted to people having problems in remembering to take their medicine on time. Having elderly people in mind, a seamless interoperation between UbiPILL and UbiHOMESERVER has been designed to reliably monitor the medicine box activities by a web browser of any client device.