| Technology | Impairment Addressed | Maturity |
|---|---|---|
| IQ Voice Organizer, from Voice Powered Technology, Inc., Burlington, N.J. | Prospective memory aid that plays back recorded messages at specified times | Commercial product |
| NeverMiss DigiPad, from ICP Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Prospective memory to record and play back messages without time trigger | Commercial product |
| CellMinder, from Institute for Cognitive Prosthetics, Bala Cynwyd, Pa. | Prospective memory aid that links personal computer calendar tasks with cell phone to send reminders | Commercial product |
| ISAAC, from Cogent Systems, Inc., Orlando, FLa. | Prospective memory aid consisting of a handheld unit customized with services to assist the cognitively disabled with routine tasks | Commercial product |
| Planning and Executive Assistant and Trainer (PEAT), from Attention Control Systems, Mountain View, Calif. | Prospective memory aid consisting of handheld reminding device with intelligent support for revising schedules | Comnmercial product |
| Easy Alarms, from Nisus Software, Inc., Solana Beach, Calif. | Prospective memory aid that provides calendar assistance with daily prompts | Commercial product |
| Essential Steps, from MASTERY Rehabilitation Systems, Inc. Bala Cynwyd, Pa. | Prospective memory aid with software to provide graphical and audio cues to support task completion | Commercial product |
| COGORTH (Levine and Kirsch, 1985) | Prospective memory aid with specialized programming language to specify multistep tasks with prompting | Emerging |
| ProsthesisWare (Chute and Bliss, 1994) | Prospective memory aid with object-oriented programming support for customized ADL definition to monitor and cue individual | Emerging |
| VIC 2.0 Recipe assistant (Steele et al., 1989) | Prospective memory to assist subject with severe aphasia to follow a simple recipe | Research |
| Friedman (1993) | Prospective memory aid using location-aware wearable computer to provide faded prompting for scheduled tasks. | Research |
| COACH (Mihailidis et al., 2000) | ADLs support for detecting hand washing, also providing prospective task support | Research |
| Cook's Collage (Mynatt and Rogers, 2002) | Retrospective memory aid using visual cues to provide support for resumption from interruption in cooking tasks | Research |
| MemoClip (Beigl, 2000) | Prospective memory aid as a wearable appliance that provides location-based reminders | Research |
| Memory Glasses (DeVaul et al., 2000) | Short-term retrospective memory and navigation aid based on wearable sensors | Research |
| Three-tiered Control Architecture (Bonasso, 1996) | Prospective memory for general ADLs using environmental and biosensors | Research |
| AutoMinder (Pollack et al., 2003) | General ADLs support consisting of intelligent reasoning system underlying robotic assistant | Research |
From: 9, The Impact of Technology on Living Environments for Older Adults
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