MANISHKA KHANNA
Research
Research Goals, Interview questions,
Information Plan, Interview Summary, and Research Themes
Research Goal
To understand and investigate why people need medication reminders.
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Interview Questions
( Personal Interview and Survey )
1. How old are you?
2. How many medicines do you take in a day?
3. Do you often forget to take your medicines?
4. Do you think it would be easier if you had an app that reminded you to take your medicines?
5. Do you use any apps that help you remind taking medicines?
6. If yes, Which one?
7. Do you (family member) or the caretaker help someone you know taking their medicines?
8. Would you solely trust the caretaker without checking upon them for giving the right medications?
9. Do you order medicines online? why and why not?
10. How many hours do you spend in a day using your phone?
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Personal Interview
Saurabh Saini
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- Quality Engineer at Google
- 45 years old
- Lives in Fremont
- Has High blood sugar
- Married and has a 3
months old son
​1. He travels 3 hours back and forth every
day for work.
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2. He comes home and helps his wife with the household chores and takes care of his baby.
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3. He often works overtime as his mainly deals with international manufactures and needs to communicate with them in their time zone.
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4. What he feels that he sometimes forgets to take his medicine because of having a tight schedule and getting busy in taking care of his firstborn.
Rohit Khanna
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- Business Owner
- 50 years old
- Lives in India
- He has High blood pressure and a heart patient.
- Married and has a 2
21 year old daughters
​1. He owns a restaurant and his major part of the day includes attending food trials and eating it for giving feedback to the chef.
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2. Because Rohit single-handedly manages the business, he usually forgets to take his medications.
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3. He often works overtime as his mainly deals with international manufactures and needs to communicate with them in their time zone.
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4. What he feels that he sometimes forgets to take his medicine because of having a tight schedule and getting busy in taking care of his firstborn.
Survey Results
How old are you ?
Do you often forget to take your medicines?
Do you use any apps that help you remind taking medicines?
How many medicines do you take in a day?
Which app do you which helps you remind to eat medication?
Do you think it would be easier
if you had an app that reminded
you to take your medicines?
if no, why?
"Too much dependence on anything not good" "I can set an alarm in the phone"
"I tend to turn off the reminders" "I don’t forget" "because I don't get severe diseases"
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Research Themes
1. Most people use inbuilt phone reminder to help them with their medication
2. People only buy medicines from their trusted pharmacy.
3. Being too busy is the main reason why people forget eating their medicine.