Alexa Health Services

Inspiration

We want to build something into someone's everyday life, which isn't too difficult to add into a daily routine.

What it does

It provides one with health tips, facts, and quick at-home workouts, which can help people stay motivated to live a longer, happier, more productive life.

How we built it

Using Amazon Web Services and Amazon developer tools as well as the Alexa app

Challenges we ran into

Narrowing our scope so that the project would be doable in 24 hours.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The workout function that randomizes your quick workout each time.

What we learned

We learned how to develop useful Alexa skills. We also learned about how the Amazon Echo communicates with lambda functions and how to code in javascript.

What's next for Alexa Health Services

Eventually we hope that the Alexa Health Services will be able to communicate with other devices such as Google Fit or a FitBit in order to receive data and provide someone with daily advice or statuses based on the person's current health information. Long-term, it could start to act like a verbal at-home fitness coach.