brain.chat

Open division submission

Inspiration

Christine Stirling

Associate Head Learning and Teaching at School of Health University of Tasmania

Ngaire Hobbins

Clinical practitioner, ageing wellness consultant, author and lecturer in dementia studies, University of Tasmania

Author of: Eat To Cheat Dementia

Age imposes unique demands on our bodies and not eating to meet those contributes to physical and mental decline, thus squandering precious independence.

What it does

Interactive chat to pre-assess a possible dementia concern of a person, person's relative or friend. Provides research-based information and suggestions based on the answers.

How I built it

By using motion.ai - a platform to visually build, train & deploy bots.

Challenges I ran into

Understanding the topic more before starting to build something.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Got to know a lot of amazing and highly driven students, researchers and professors. Also getting an unusual (for me) proper 8-hour sleep in bed, in between the days while still adhering to the hackathon timeline and project submission deadline.

What I learned

That dementia affects so many people and their relatives who feel alone, frustrated and don't know what you are supposed to do.

What's next for brain.chat

• Look into chatbots potential to link deeply with the undergoing research and its clinical application potential.
• Partnering with UTas Better Health research and also with Natural Learning Processing and Artificial Intelligence companies like IBM and their Watson cognitive computing cloud services.
• Using physical robots SDKs, like jibo.com social robot or Amazon Alexa-enabled devices, to create personal assistance hardware element as a personal help for people and families affected by dementia.

Built With

• launchrock.com
• motion.ai