RFID ODCSSS Project

Caitie Lustig took this project for ODCSSS during the summer. I could'nt find the final project report in the CVS repository, but Caitie sent me a rar file with some useful notes and what seems to be a near completed draft of the final report. The paper is titled "Reminding Short-Term Memory Sufferers to Complete Routine Tasks" The main focus of the project was to use RFID technology to asist sufferers of short term memory in completing everyday tasks. The system was designed to determine which activities were being carried out based on what objects were touched. The system can then alert users of forgotten tasks and when an activity has not been completed. I was interested in how this was achieved. Each activity had specific objects associated with it, and a final step ie, the last object that will be touched in that activity. A task is identified by the percentage of associated objects that have been touched. Time limits were also given for each task to be completed. This ensures to notify users in case they had forgotten what they were doing. I like this system. Its simple but effective. Im not sure if multi task recognition was included but I think the system would be easily adapted. The glove was tested with users carrying out a number of specific tasks. The results of these were not in the notes I have, so I will ask Lorcan and Caitie about them.