Concepção de uma solução de ambiente inteligente automática para auxiliar na medicação de pacientes

Abstract

User centered development has become a new trend in development of industrial automation systems. In this paradigm the user plays a central role during the whole development process. The users‟ needs, wishes, restrictions and preferences are being thoroughly analyzed and systematically integrated into the automation system. This affects the system architecture and its user interface already from the beginning of the development process. The result is a product, which is tailored to its end users. Usability and accessibility are two important aspects of such products, which are often addressed in the literature. They define the degree to which a product can be easily and intuitively used by as many users as possible. At the Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering (IAS) an intelligent medicine cabinet has been developed, according to the user centered development paradigm. The intelligent medicine cabinet administers the medicine takings of its users, by giving them instructions and/or warnings on their medications. In this master thesis, the medicine cabinet has been extended to numerous functions and more stability. Administration of prescriptions, warning on unauthorized access, monitoring of allowed daily dosage, multilingual speech outputs and internet interface are among the achievements of this work.