HydReminder-W: A Bottle Cap that Listens to Your Heart to Remind You to Drink!

Nishiki Motokawa, Anna Yokokubo, Guillaume Lopez

2023

Abstract

Hydration is essential for maintaining life. Consequently, a lack of awareness of the amount of water required and the actual amount of water intake has been issued for all generations and may lead to diseases that result in death. However, existing systems still have limited capabilities for tracking hydration reminder systems in unconstrained, realistic environments. Therefore, this study employs personalized information based on the user’s biometric information and environmental information. We proposed and developed a smart bottle cap system that includes an environmental sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, an infrared sensor, the user’s heart rate from a smartwatch, and a cap-shaped shell to create a compact system. Our proposed system, ‘HydReminder-W,’ promotes proper hydration using the individual’s biometric information, which teaches individuals about the lack of hydration. A comparison of hydration with HydReminder-W showed that the amount of water intake increased with the use of HydReminder-W. The average System Usability Scale (SUS) score of all the subjects was 78.9 points, confirming that HydReminder-W has excellent usability and is helpful as a hydration promotion system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Motokawa N., Yokokubo A. and Lopez G. (2023). HydReminder-W: A Bottle Cap that Listens to Your Heart to Remind You to Drink!. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-631-6, SciTePress, pages 199-208. DOI: 10.5220/0011800700003414

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf23,
author={Nishiki Motokawa and Anna Yokokubo and Guillaume Lopez},
title={HydReminder-W: A Bottle Cap that Listens to Your Heart to Remind You to Drink!},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2023},
pages={199-208},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011800700003414},
isbn={978-989-758-631-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - HydReminder-W: A Bottle Cap that Listens to Your Heart to Remind You to Drink!
SN - 978-989-758-631-6
AU - Motokawa N.
AU - Yokokubo A.
AU - Lopez G.
PY - 2023
SP - 199
EP - 208
DO - 10.5220/0011800700003414
PB - SciTePress