Key task
Assist the communication between family caregivers and elderly
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To understand, and keep track of the physiological needs and emotions of the elderly.
(It’s hard for elderly with dementia to either carry out or express basic needs.)
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Provide caregivers the ability to control elderly's safety immediately when they are out-of-sight.
Function: i-Care
Central Panel: Manage & Reminder
Smart Table: Interactive tasks (drawing, games)
i-Care: Monitor
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Check the elderly’s physical & emotional state, location, and safety from i-Wear and i-Guard.
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The system will actively send abnormal notifications to caregivers when things go wrong.
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Provide reminders and suggestions of caring according to performance change in interactive tasks on smart table.
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Monitor blood pressure, heartbeat, body temperature, blood sugar and conditions of the gastrointestinal motility for defecation time prediction.
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Monitor Emotion: the color of a heart image on the i-Wear displays the emotion status of the elderly
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Monitor Location​
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Customized content and difficulty
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Evaluation of intelligence and limb flexibility will be recorded on central panel
Idea Selections
Smart tile will play a game with you. When it lights up certain tile , you have to step it. So, the elderly can focus on the game like a cat.
Smart tile in the bedroom to guide you to the bathroom when it’s dark.
Mirror with fairies that can blush the teeth with you.
Smart Panel beside the bed
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Smart Panel on the dining room table for the elderly to draw or write something
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Panel on the door will lock when the patient with gadgets approaches. Patients have to solve the puzzle in order to go out .
IOT device selections
Other devices selections
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A robot that can server as a full time care giver
Idea Selections(cont.)
Where should the Smart Panel being placed.
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At the dining table
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At the living room
In the bedroom
Using central panel
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Using smart gadgets such as twistband
How the i-Wear connects with central panel
Should i-Guard be controlled by the caregiver?
No, sensitive things will lock when the elderly approaches and it will open again when the elderly moves away.
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Yes, we should control i-Guard on the central panel for convenience.
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# One
Moderate, control and communicate with elderly.
Redefine target users and key problems
Choose a Solution
Combine and simplify similar ideas
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# Two
Interaction / Emotional & physiological detection / Location
Before
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Task 1 - Communicate and control the elder.
# Three
Compare different solutions
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# Three
Draw for solutions
Interface of central panel / i-Wear / Smart Table
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Compare different solutions
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Task 2 - Maintain interaction and stimulation.
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Before
Paper Prototype Video
Help to maintain interaction and stimulation to improve the caring relationship.
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# Three
Make sure the elderly’s safety without needing to keep an 24-hour eye on them.
i-Guard: Safety Control
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Caregivers install i-Guard in those dangerous areas, such as door and gas knob.
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Whenever the elderly approach these areas, i-Guard detects i-Wear and automatically locks the dangerous item in the area to prevent danger.
i-Care is a system including
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i-Wear: smart clothes that monitors the elderly’s emotion, position, and physiological status
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A smart table: Provides interactive games and measuring elderly’s intellectual and physical change
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i-Guard: smart locks that detected i-Wear and was remotely controlled to keep the elderly safe
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Central Panel: Receive information and manage the whole system.