Reminders that Make Sense: Designing Multimodal Notifications for the Home

Marilyn McGee-Lennon; Stephen		 Brewster

Advances in Techniques and Technologies Assisting Care at Home

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Reminders that Make Sense: Designing Multimodal Notifications for the Home

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    author={Marilyn McGee-Lennon and Stephen		 Brewster},
    title={Reminders that Make Sense: Designing Multimodal Notifications for the Home},
    proceedings={Advances in Techniques and Technologies Assisting Care at Home},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={ATTACH},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={homecare assitive technology multimodal notifications reminders.},
    doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246032}
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Marilyn McGee-Lennon
Stephen Brewster
Year: 2012
Reminders that Make Sense: Designing Multimodal Notifications for the Home
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DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246032

Marilyn McGee-Lennon¹^,*, Stephen Brewster¹

1: University of Glasgow

*Contact email: Marilyn.McGee-Lennon@glasgow.ac.uk

Abstract

This paper argues that reminders or notifications delivered in the home (such as appointments or when to take medication) should be available in multiple modalities (visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory) in order to increase the usability and acceptability of electronic home reminder systems. Briefly reviewing the context of the home as an interaction space this paper introduces some of the issues that can be addressed by exploiting multimodality. The paper goes on to present an overview of the different modalities available for electronic reminder delivery and finally gives an overview of the guidelines for multimodal reminder design emerging from the first year of the MultiMemoHome Project.

Keywords: homecare assitive technology multimodal notifications reminders.

Published: 2012-04-17
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2011.246032