MEDI
Medication adherence for students in boarding schools.
Students miss doses because medicine is easy to forget and awkward around friends. MEDI is a biometric dispenser and app that respects adolescent autonomy and takes the logging off staff.
Releases the right dose at the right time, and logs it.
Only the student it belongs to can open it.
Modular, one per student, with the stock tracked automatically.
- Brief
- Find a venture in an overlooked problem: students at boarding school missing their medication.
- Outcome
- A fingerprint dispenser, a locker wall that grows with a house, and an app built on streaks.
40%
lower adherence in adolescents than adults
At King's College, I often felt like I had to be secretive about taking medication around my friends.
- 01
Notice
Forgetfulness, peer pressure, resistance to authority, no symptoms.
- 02
Sketch
A locker wall that a house can grow into.
- 03
Build
A dispenser that unlocks with a fingerprint.
- 04
Reward
Streaks, not nagging.
I would have really liked using this at school, as I would constantly forget my beta blockers meds, especially in the mornings.