Carol

Inspiration

We were inspired by the idea of the University of Utah, to help the elderly with low tech skills – as they are part of the risk group of COVID-19 – stay informed, connected and to cope with health and social distancing orders. We thought of the idea to have an easy to interact user interface that should be able to show them what can be done for them, how they can stay safe and healthy, and to help them have a better quality of life during social distancing and other critical health practices against COVID-19.

What it does

The main interaction of this software is through voice. Hold a button, tell what you need, and it will be done by our chatbot. It will try to understand what is your current need connect you with some service that might solve your problem quickly or it will put you in contact with someone that will help you.

How We built it

While this is a proof-of-concept, we intend to build it using React for the web application version, and React Native for the mobile apps, to speed up the development for both Android and iOS. For now, it is just an interactive prototype built on Adobe XD.

For the real software, we will count on Speech to Text browser and native API's, depending on the platform, for the main voice interactions. We will use Facebook's Wit.ai API to handle the natural language processing and help us have a clear understanding of the user intentions. Through the results of that API, we will serve our elderly users with news, health tips, and volunteers to help accomplish tasks that might need to leave isolation safety such as shopping. Said volunteers will need to register in an online platform for volunteers and should meet the following requirements: they should be healthy, they should not be a part or live with people that are part of the risk groups, and they should not have a criminal record.

What's next for Carol

The next step for Carol is to build the web and mobile app for the elderly users, as we only have the concept. Then we will build the volunteer platform and connect both, having a new release for the main web/mobile apps.