BaMoS - A Mobile Medical Information System that Provides Assistance to Elderly People as well as
Publikation aus Digital
Kalcher B., Nischelwitzer A.K., Paletta L., Amlacher K., Luley P., Almer A., Rath O.
Proc Multimedia Applications in Education Conference (MAPEC2006) , 2007
Today, people with certain reading disabilities, such as, illiterates
or elderly people, are impacted in accessing and understanding highly
relevant medical information in daily. Medical package information
is presented in scientific writing style, with small font size, and
can hardly be associated to severe diseases to the users, therefore
resulting in bad usability. Paradoxically exactly those people who
have difficulties reading the package insert are most likely to take
medicine. The mobile service BaMoS (Barrier free Mobile Service)
aims at providing assistance to people who have difficulties reading
package inserts. BaMoS supports the user by using the mobile phone
to read the relevant medical information and transfer the information
into an understandable manner to him/her. Specifically adapted audio
based menu navigation allows the user to interact with the application
even though the user might have little or no reading skills at all.
The audio based menu navigation provides assistance for illiterates,
but also elderly people might benefit from it. This paper presents
the innovative concept, the complete outline of the system architecture,
and preliminary results. In future work it is planned to facilitate
the usage of BaMoS by enabling the service to be attached with an
alternative input device that is primarily designed for elderly people.
Keywords: Mobile Services for Disabled People, Illiteracy, Elderly People, Accessibility, Mobile Usability, TTS, Medical Information System, Text Recognition