SPLASH: Smart-Phone Logging App for Sustaining Hydration Enabled by NFC
Late-Breaking Works: Engineering of Interactive Systems
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Luo, Xu
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Woznowski, Przemyslaw
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Burrows, Alison
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Haghighi, Mo
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Craddock, Ian
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.1526-1532
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Maintaining good hydration is crucial for adequate physical and mental
performance for all human beings. In this paper we present SPLASH, an Android
app that enables users to set daily goals and to keep track of their liquid
intake through a combination of smart-phone NFC technology and NFC-tagged cups.
We conducted several experiments to verify the robustness of the technology,
which indicated that the selected NFC tags had acceptable robustness,
operational distance and good penetration ability to meet the intended
requirements for monitoring hydration. To further assess the feasibility of our
concept, we evaluated SPLASH with ten users who gave feedback on its usability.
We discuss the current prototype's advantages and limitations, as well as
possible improvements and potential capabilities. At the end of this paper, we
propose additional healthcare application scenarios for our concept.
