WATCHMINDER2 Thank you for purchasing the WatchMinder2. The watch was invented by a psychologist who works with children and adults who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). The watch has a number of other applications(see www.watchminder. com). AD/HD LD Elderly Chronic Illness Brain Injury and Stroke Medication Compliance Deaf and Hard of Hearing 1 Behavior Modification and Self-Monitoring Independence Training and Vocational Rehabilitation Research, Data Collection and Clinical Trials Studies Assistive Device for 504 Plans The WatchMinder2 has the following functions: TM & DT (real-time calendar clock) (P7-P8) B OR V (bell or vibration alarm) (P8-P9) TRAINING mode (use to train or improve a behavior) (P9-P17) REMINDER mode (use to remember a specific task or chore) (P18-P26) TMR (countdown timer) (P26-P28) SW (stopwatch) (P28-P29) SPECIAL OPERATING NOTES 1. The power consumption of the vibrator and EL backlight are quite high. A battery should last several months under normal circumstances. If you use a large number of vibration alerts, you will need to change the battery more frequently. 2. The bell/vibration alert for all modes will last 2 for 10 seconds (one second bell/vibration with one second interval) unless it is turned off by a push of any button. 3. In setting time in all modes, a 24-hour system will be applied, but it will be displayed in a 12-hour system. (1 pm is "13") 4. Push LIGHT button, which is left blank without a label "LIGHT", the backlight comes on for 5 seconds and turns off automatically. 5. Push and hold down SW/+ or TMR/- button to count up/down rapidly after 3 seconds while setting. 6. Push TRAIN/SET and REMIND/GO TO at the same time to view current date. 7. Push SW/+ or TMR/- to exit TRAINING and REMINDER modes. 8. Push TRAIN/SET to exit TM & DT, TMR, SW and B OR V. 9. The watch is water resistant, NOT water 3 proof. DO NOT IMMERSE IN WATER. 10. Pressing RESET will delete all stored information in watch except personalized messages. 11. TRAINING and REMINDER modes can operate at the same time. 12. Messages repeat daily and there is no need to re-program the watch. HOW TO CHANGE BATTERY 1. One CR-2032 battery powers the watch (CPU, bell/vibrator and light). A capacitor is installed as back up power to allow an owner 4 to 6 seconds to replace battery. If it takes more than 4 to 6 seconds to replace a battery, all settings will be erased except the personalized messages. 4 open back cover unload battety load battery close back cover 2. Low battery warning: A symbol of low battery will appear at the 4th line at times when battery is low. An owner should replace the battery as soon as possible in this case. (Note: The symbol may only display while vibration/bell goes off or light is on. In case the backlight looks dim, the vibration is weak, the watch resets itself or one of the modes stops working, an owner must replace the battery ASAP, even if symbol of low battery is NOT on.) 5 SPECIAL NOTES FOR ALL MODES 1. A 60- second duration is allowed for an owner to make decision while setting. 2. A blank space and the following letters/ numbers/symbols (hereinafter referred to as characters) are in memory for an owner to create personalized messages. A message is limited to 9 letters/numbers/symbols and a blank space is counted as one character. A to Z English capital alphabet N with ~ on top after Z for Spanish 0 to 9 numbers Blank space next to the left of letter "A" Symbols include ! @ # $ & ? < > . , - + = 3. If a message contains more than 6 characters, it will move slowly across the screen. 6 I. TM&DT 1. Push TRAIN/SET and TMR/- buttons together to go to TM&DT. (Note: Push TMR/- first and then TRAIN/SET) LCD displays Y00 M00 in the 2nd line and D00 W00 in the 3rd line; Year digit begins to blink. 2. Push SW/+ or TMR/- to adjust year. (Note: Number of year begins at 00 and ends at 99, i.e. when you go pass 99, it returns to 00.) 3. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to month digit, which begins to blink. 4. Push SW/+ or TMR/- to adjust month. 5. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to date digit, which begins to blink. 6. Push SW/+ or TMR/- button to adjust date. (Note: You do not need to set the day of a week. It comes on the screen automatically after you set date.) 7 7. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to hour digit (remember-24 hour clock), which begins to blink. 8. Push SW/+ or TMR/- button to adjust hour. 9. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to minute digit, which begins to blink. 10. Push SW/+ or TMR/- button to adjust minute. 11. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to second digit, which begins to blink. 12. Push SW/+ or TMR/- to adjust second. 13. Push TRAIN/SET button to enter. LCD displays current time. II. B OR V 1.Push SW/+ and REMIND/GO TO buttons together to go to B OR V (Note: Push SW/+ first and then REMIND/GO TO). LCD displays sub-modes B OFF and V OFF. Submode 8 B OFF begins to blink. 2. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to B OR V. 3. Push SW/+ or TMR/- to scroll OFF or ON. 4. Push TRAIN/SET to enter. If you turn B ON, you are in sub-mode BEEP. Symbol of beep displays in the 4th line. If you turn V ON, you are in sub-mode VIBRATION. Symbol of vibration displays in the 4th line. If you turn off beep and vibration, both symbols of beep and vibration disappear. When you turn on B OR V, you will hear a bell or feel a vibration. III. TRAINING SPECIAL NOTES FOR TRAINING MODE a. There are 19 preset messages in memory as follows: BATHRM (bathroom); BE POS (be positive); 9 BREATH (breathe); COUGH; FOLDIR (follow directions); FOLRUL (follow rules); GIVPOS (give positive reinforcement); GOODJB (good job); HANDUP (raise hand); IGNORE; POSIMG (positive image); POSTUR (posture); PRAY; PYATTN (pay attention); RELAX; REST; SIT; STOP; STRTCH (stretch). b. There are two alarm schedules FIXED (every 2,3,5,10,15,20,30,45 or 60 minutes) or RANDOM (CPU randomly chooses from 2,3,5,10,15,30 and 60 minutes). You can shoose one of these (FIX or RDM) and the daily start (S) time and end (E) time. c. Once the TRAINING mode is set, it operates simultaneously with other modes and repeats every 24 hours unless it is reset. An owner should delete a training setting before he/she sets a new one. 10 d. If a TRAINING message is not responded to by pushing any button, except LIGHT and RESET buttons, it will come back with an alert in 30 seconds. This "snooze" feature is limited to one additional time. e. If the start time is set before current time, the TRAINING mode will not work for that day and will be activated the next day. f. If a TRAINING alert and a REMINDER alert are activated at the same time, TRAINING will win and REMINDER message will come on screen after TRAINING message disappears. CREATING PERSONALIZED MESSAGES (3 maximum) 1. Push TRAIN/SET button to go to TRAIN. LCD displays sub-mode: NEW (create personalized message) DEL (delete personalized message) 11 SET (set up training mode) REV (review or delete current training mode set up) in the 2nd and 3rd lines. Sub-mode NEW begins to blink. 2. Push TRAIN/SET button to enter. LCD displays in the 3rd line the first six characters of the table of characters in memory. The 3rd character begins to blink. 3. Push SW/+ or TMR/- button to select a character you would like to use. This selected character begins to blink. 4. Push REMIND/GO TO button to enter. The selected character will appear in the 2nd line and it begins to blink again in the 3rd line. (e.g. Enter "B" and "B" begins to blink again.) 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until your personalized message appears in the 2nd line of the screen. (Note: In editing a personalized message, an owner should delete the whole message to correct a mistake in case of an error.) 12 6. Push TRAIN/SET button to enter the personalized message into memory. LCD returns to step 1. 7. Repeat the above steps 2 to 6 to create two additional personalized messages. The 3 personalized messages will be saved in memory before the factory preset messages. 8. Push SW/+ or TMR/- button to go back to current time while sub-modes appear. DELETING PERSONALIZED MESSAGES 1. To delete a personalized message, push TRAIN/SET button to go to TRAIN. LCD displays sub-mode NEW DEL SET REV in the 2nd and 3rd lines. Sub-mode NEW begins to blink. 2. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to submode DEL. 3. Push TRAIN/SET button to enter. LCD displays 13 the first personalized message in the 2nd line, which begins to blink/scroll, and the second personalized message in the 3rd line. (Note: If there is no personalized message in memory, the sub-mode DEL will not be activated.) 4. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to the personalized message you would like to delete. 5. Push TRAIN/SET button to delete it while it is blinking/scrolling. LCD returns to step 1. 6. Repeat steps 2 to 5 to delete the other 2 personalized messages if necessary. 7. Push SW/+ or TMR/- button to go back to current time while sub-modes appear. SETTING UP TRAINING MODE 1. Push TRAIN/SET button to go to TRAIN. LCD displays sub-mode: NEW DEL SET REV in the 2nd and 3rd lines. Sub-mode NEW begins to 14 blink. 2. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to sub-mode SET. 3. Push TRAIN/SET button to enter. LCD displays the first preset message in the 2nd line, which begins to blink/scroll, and sub-modes FIX RDM in the 3rd line. 4. Push SW/+ or TMR/- to select a message you would like to have (see note a. on P9-P10 above). 5. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to FIX, which begins to blink in the 3rd line. 6. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to fixed intervals if you would like to use FIX sub-mode. Fixed interval "3" begins to blink. 7. Push SW/+ or TMR/- button to select an interval (2,3,5,10,15,20,30,45 or 60 minutes) you would like to use and push REMIND/GO TO button to go to time setting. If you would like to use random sub-mode RDM, skip step 6 and push 15 SW/+ or TMR/- button to select sub-mode RDM while FIX is blinking. Sub-mode RDM begins to blink. 8. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to time setting. (In random sub-mode, CPU randomly chooses from these time intervals:(3,5,10,15, 20,30 and 60 minutes.) The start hour digit begins to blink in the 2nd line. You will see a letter "S" (meaning start time) right before the hour digit and a letter "E" (meaning end time) right before the hour digit in the 3rd line. 9. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to start hour digit (remember-24 hour clock), start minute digit, end hour digit or end minute digit you would like to adjust and push SW/+ or TMR/- to adjust them. 10.Push TRAIN/SET button to enter. LCD returns to step 1. 11. Push SW/+ or TMR/- to go back to current time 16 while sub-modes appear. REVIEWING SETTINGS 1. To review/delete your settings, push TRAIN/SET button to go to TRAIN. LCD displays sub-mode: NEW DEL SET REV in the 2nd and 3rd lines. Sub-mode NEW begins to blink. 2. Push REMIND/GO TO button to go to REV. 3. Push TRAIN/SET button to enter. LCD displays your selected message in the 2nd line and submode REV DEL in the 3rd line with REV blinking. 4. Push TRAIN/SET button to review your setting item by item, or push REMIND/GO TO button to go to DEL while REV is blinking if you would like to delete a setting and push TRAIN/SET to confirm. LCD returns to step 1. 5. Push SW/+ or TMR/- button to go back to current time while sub-modes appear. 17 IV. REMINDER SPECIAL NOTES FOR REMINDER MODE a. There are 59 preset messages in memory as follows: BANK; BATH; BATHRM (bathroom); BCKPCK(backpack); BOOKS; CALL; CALHME (call home); CALWRK (call work); CATH (catheter); CHORES; CK APL (check appliance); CLEAN; COPYHW (copy homework assignment); COUGH; DESK; DO HW (do homework); DRESS; EAT; EMAIL; EXRCSE (exercise); GO BED; GO DR; GOHOME (go home); GO MTG (go meeting); GO WRK (go work); HELP; MAIL; MKFOOD (make food); MEDS1 (medication number one); MEDS2; MEDS3; MEDS4; MEDS5; MEDS6; ORGNZR (organizer); PAYBIL (pay bills); PET; 18 PLAY; PRAY; PRCTCE (practice); PU KID (pick up kids); READ; REST; SCHOOL; SNACK;STOP; STORE;STRTCH(stretch); STUDY; TEETH; TEST; TLKTCH(talk to teacher); TRASH; TURNHW(turn in homework); TV ; VIDEO; WAKEUP; WATER; WRITE. b. You are allowed to set up to 30 reminder messages and you can use the same message multiple times. If two messages are activated at the same time, they will come on screen in turn. Once it is set, it operates simultaneously with other modes and repeats daily, weekly, monthly or annually as the case may be. It is recommended that you keep a written record of your reminder settings to facilitate revision of your reminder settings or in case your settings are lost. c. If you set year, month, date and time for a reminder message, it will be activated on the 19 appointed time of the date in that particular year OR it will repeat annually without a year setting (00). If you set month, date and time for a reminder message, it will be activated on the appointed time of the date in that particular month OR it will repeat monthly without a month setting ...