Cuckoo Medi
Cuckoo Medi is a electronic medicine box. It helps the elders to take their medicine in time. When it's time for medicine the Cuckoo bird on the clock will jump out and sing to remind elderly. At the same time the medicine will fall down to the transparent ball at the bottom, and the ball will glow in a warm light. If the elders still forget the medicine and they did not take the medicine out in 10 minutes, Cuckoo Medi will automatically contact their family or family doctor to remind the elders.
Through simple and intuitive interactions, Cuckoo Medi greatly stop these common medicine-misusing problems such as repeating, forgetting to take the medicine and even taking the wrong ones. Moreover, it can simply work with a few steps which makes their caretaking easier.
Problem
(1) repeat medication: easy to cause drug side effects and other problems.
(2) poor memory: forgotten or repeated medication, or taking medications dosing errors.
(3) for the elderly, the most important thing is families' care and reminders, and always be aware of and observe the older drug habits and security.
Existing products
Lack of emotional level design, and after forget to take medicine, how to notice the elderlys' family or social workers?
Problem
(1) repeat medication: easy to cause drug side effects and other problems.
(2) poor memory: forgotten or repeated medication, or taking medications dosing errors.
(3) for the elderly, the most important thing is families' care and reminders, and always be aware of and observe the older drug habits and security.
Lack of emotional level design, and after forget to take medicine, how to notice the elderlys' family or social workers?
Step1 When filling in the one week medicine. Open the front cover. (Family)
Step2 Flip open the plastic cover of the medicine box. And place the medicine in the right order. Different colors represent different day.
Step3 Replace the box back to the clock. Switch the "stop" icon to "set time" on the screen, and drag the four icons according to the medicine-taking time. When it's time for taking the medicine, Cuckoo Medi will sing.
Step4 When the Cuckoo bird bumps out from the reminder, the medicine box in the middle will rotate and the medicine in it will drop to the glass underneath the clock. Warm light will come out from the glass. It's easy for the elders to put the magnetic glass back to the reminder.
1. If the elders still forget the medicine and they did not take the medicine out in 10 minutes, Cuckoo Medi will automatically contact their family or family doctor to remind the elders.
2. If the elderly has not been dispensary, CUCKOO MEDI will not continue to fall the medicine, thereby avoiding duplication elderly medication.
3. If the elderly not at home,the family members can be contacted by Cuckoo Medi APP, let CUCKOO MEDI notice system suspend or adjust medication time.
mock-up
2013 Gigabyte Great-design Competition - Silver Award
2013 Sichuan-Taiwan industrial design award - Bronze Award
Design By _ Hui-Chuan Ma / Yan-Jang Cheng / Hsin-Ya Huang