The MultiMemoHome Project

MultiMemoHome is a research project aiming to develop user-friendly, accessible and effective reminder systems in order to improve home care. Our primary goal is to use modern technology to support people who require regular care or assistance at home. We hope that this will help to provide a higher standard of living, reduce stress on carers and family, and allow people to remain in their own homes independently for longer.

In order to reach this goal we're researching how different people live, identifying the things people forget and the methods used to remember things around the home. We're also investigating the technology required to deliver reminders to people of various ages, backgrounds and abilities. Most importantly, we're trying to research technology that is practical, affordable and suitable for use in everyday life.

We believe the key to this is multimodal interaction; communication through sound, vision, smell and touch. Multimodal interaction allows us to create computer systems that are more accessible, especially to people with sensory impairments. The MMH project brings together two world-class teams to combine work on speech and multimodal interaction, supported by experienced clinicians from the only audiology training programme in Scotland.