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The MedApp project is a research-through-design study aimed at better understanding the routines involved around medication adherence.

Client: MedApp x TU/e HONORS

Role: Medical Design, Data-Enabled Design, Design Research

Year: 2019-2020

Outcome: Published research, Research tool dedicated to independent home use

The challenge was to gather concrete, unbiased data, from a sensible target group, while also not creating an intrusive research device.

The lack of medication adherence is one of the most serious issues regarding recovery from a disease or chronic use of medication. 50% of prescription medicine are not taken as prescribed and only around 15-20% are refilled at pharmacies as dictated by the doctor (Xie et al. 2008). Moreover, the lack of medical adherence adds up to 290 Billion USD in costs for patients (Cutler et al. ,2018).

The following research attempts to put forward a more in-depth analysis of the habits and routines involved around medication intake. This topic is still not easily accessible, for HCI Researchers, since it involves a sensitive user group and a topic prone to being affected by "white coat" effects. We focus our approach in the direction of quantitative, "in-the-wild" research and data-enabled design.

The design process