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WaterJewel: be aware of your daily servings of water with an LED-illuminated bracelet

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Jutta Fortmann,

Vanessa Cobus,

Wilko Heuten,

Susanne BollAuthors Info & Claims

PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Pages 195 - 196

https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255270

Published: 20 May 2014 Publication History

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A recent study revealed that every fourth German adult drinks less than 1.5 litres a day. In the long term, this leads to dehydration and can cause confusedness, faint, or can even be mortal. To overcome their problem, people affected use reminder signals which they often miss or yet deactivate because they are too obtrusive. In this paper we present WaterJewel, an LED-illuminated bracelet which reminds the user to drink, as well as it rises the user's awareness for their drinking frequency in an unobtrusive way. Eight single light spots on the bracelet indicate the amount of drinks taken. Another light spot presents the time elapsed since the last drink. We found that with WaterJewel, people manage to drink 2 litres a day and drink more regularly than with current approaches.

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PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 2014

459 pages

ISBN:9781631900112

General Chair:
Andreas Hein
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Program Chairs:
Susanne Boll
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Friedrich Köhler
Charité, Berlin, Germany

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)

Brussels, Belgium

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PervasiveHealth '14: 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 20 - 23, 2014

Oldenburg, Germany

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Petford JCarson INacenta MGutwin CBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)A Comparison of Notification Techniques for Out-of-View Objects in Full-Coverage DisplaysProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300288(1-13)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300288
Colley AWoźniak PKiss FHäkkilä JBratteteig TSandnes FBerget G(2018)Shoe integrated displaysProceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3240167.3240216(39-46)Online publication date: 29-Sep-2018
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