Observations from Contextual Inquiry

• Eric eats his breakfast
• Then pulls out a pill bottle from his bathroom's medicine cabinet, amlodipine
• He takes only one medicine at a time
• He uses his Iphone's calendar with pop ups of medicine's name but he mostly uses his own memory to decide when to take the medicine
• He doesn't stick to a strict timeline or schedule of medicines
• He uses his judgment if he should take his medicines
• He takes his blood pressure on the machine
• He doesn't write down his blood pressure readings
• He decides based on the reading when to take the medicine

Interview

1. What medications are you taking?

I'm taking amlodipine, meloxicam, atorvastatin, and coreg.. I just started potassium chloride last week. Sometimes, they put me on lasix.

1. When do you take your medicines?