Dementia Writing Aid

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Inspiration

Dementia affects people ability to write or get the right words to express themselves. There are a few outstanding individuals with Dementia who have written about their own cognitive impairments in autobiographies, newsletters, and, increasingly, on blogs. One of these, the late Thomas de Baggio, an herb farmer from the Washington, D.C., area described his difficulties writing:

With failing memory, it is difficult to write long passages without getting lost in words. Where does the story go? Words come when I sit down to write, but they dance away seductively.... I am having trouble reading the writing I do with a pencil or pen. It used to be sharp; now it wobbles and is full of uncertainty. The words come normally but the letters are sometimes not in proper order.

What it does

Uses Artificial Intelligence to generate what to write or say for the people affected with Dementia. The user make a request like "Write a birthday message to my grandson turning 5." or "Write an apology letter to my friend for not making to his birthday party" then click "GENERATE". The app will generate using GPT-3 language model something for the person to write. Note the following:
✅ Dementia Writing Aid can generate so many things☺️, please be specific in describing what you want.
✅ Make it clear what you want either through instructions, examples, or a combination of the two.
✅ A well-written request provides enough information for Dementia Writing Aid to know what you want and how it should respond.
✅ Be sure to proofread your request — Dementia Writing Aid is smart enough to see through basic spelling mistakes and give you a response, but it might assume this is intentional and it can affect it response.

How we built it

Scripting with Javascript. GPT-3 and NLP for AI. HTML/CSS for the frontend.

Challenges we ran into

Little time to come up with the solution.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A working MVP at link

What we learned

Effects of dementia in writing. Hackathons sponsors role in their respective fields.

What's next for Dementia Writing Aid

Add user management whereby people can sign up and login. Impove the user experience and interface. Make it available on more platforms other than web.

Built With

• ai
• css3
• html5
• javascript
• ml
• natural-language-processing