The project hypothesizes that new forms of technology such as wearables for healthcare (careables) can assist medical researchers in improved ways of collecting data in medical research projects that currently rely on questionnaires or interviews to collect subjective measure such as symptoms from users.

Through understanding the patient's unique practices and domestic routines we explore new ways of using interactive technology to allow self-tracking of symptoms and medication use in a manner that fits their everyday. E.g. the interactive technologies need to be able to take into account the switch of motivation that happens to patients in the offering of experimental medicine. We hypothesize that the patient's motivations for assisting the researchers are different before and after the experimental medicine has been offered and that the technology that is used to collect data need to be customized in order to take this into account.

The pilot will run through winter 2018/2019. The aim is to test the feasibility of producing technologies that are able to collect data more accurately and at a higher response rate than questionnaires, while still being financially viable.