Smart TV Medicine Tracker

The project is intended for development of a medicine intake support system that should notify the user about the intake and keep a records of all taken medicine. The application is targeted for the emerging Smart TV market. The youth of platforms should not temper with the application adaptation and use as any recent TV could be transformed into the Smart TV by attaching the set-top box to it. Based on the gained experience we will try to derive common obstacles that most mHealth application developers will face when using Smart TVs in their projects.
The main use case of the medicine intake tracking system is the following. We consider that user is watching TV at the moment and the system is properly set up by a physician or by relatives. Setup includes following information: what medicine patient should intake, when they should do it and amount of the medicine per intake. Setup can be performed either remotely or locally.
When time comes for a medicine intake, the system displays a subtle notification in top area of screen, accompanied by a short sound notification. The notification allows to open the tracker application and add the record describing the intake. If the patient fails to record an intake for 5 minutes, the system displays the full-screen alarm notification, accompanied by the repeating sound notification, that will not disappear until the patient make the required action.
This use case can be extended for other mHealth activities, like taking measurements of vital signs or performing exercises. In these cases the click on the notification opens another applications, such as a measurement tracker or an exercise helper. Time given to perform required action may depend on an action type, for example, 5 minutes for the blood pressure measurement and 15 minutes for the squatting exercise.