Reminder system prototype in mobile phone for elderly people

Nowadays, the growmg numbers of elderly is inevitable. As people aged memory capabilities reduced such as memory decline, hearing decline and visual decline, thus reminder system is one of technology that can benefit elderly user. However, the uptake of reminder system is still low. Many researchers from the western country have interested in exploring the use of reminder system as part of assistive technology for the elderly. Nevertheless, no research is solely focus on what actually elderly users expect from a reminder system. Hence, this study attempts to improved design or prototype of reminder system to give easier when the user used it. The researcher conducted an experiments consists of pre-test phase and post-test phase. The researcher applied techniques such as semi structured interview, task solving and experiment to assess our respondents suggestions on the reminder system. It found that elderly use reminder for important event/activity. but the definition of important may be differ for each respondents. As conclusion. our results also indicate that elderly on using reminder system includes four important principles in which the reminder system it must be simple, can be synchronized. mobile and easy to use.