"Reminding Short-Term Memory Sufferers to Complete Routine Tasks"

This is Caities final report for the RFID ODCSSS project. Heres a quick recap on what the system does. Small RFID tags are attached to a number of objects, which can be read by the RFID glove. The glove consists of an RFID reader sewn into the palm. This connects to through a simple circuit to the Gumstix computer. This circuit also supplies power to the reader and Gumstix. The Gumstix reads the data picked up by the reader through one of its serial ports. The Gumstix is connected to an expansion board with wireless capabilities which is used to connect to a remote server on a pc and pass the data to a webpage. The webpage updates a database with the tag information.

The system is designed to recognise individual tasks. Activities are associated with a number of tags. A task is identified based on the percentage of associated tags that have been read, within a given time period. Each task also has a specific "end" object or the last object that will be touched in a given task, which indicates when the task has been completed. Overall a nice simple and effective method.

For testing a number of users were asked to interact with objects involved with spefic tasks, and later asked for feedback on using the glove. Overall many found the glove restrictive mainly because of the RFID reader in the palm, and the glove being uncomfortable. My first thought was to move the reader to the wrist but this was already tested and was not very effective due to the short range of the reader. However I do have another idea that might work, which would also make most of the glove unnecessary. Will post a sketch of this soon... Oooh.