ERA

Inspiration

We came together as a team to work on solving social isolation for older women in LMIC's. We had met through the Fung Fellowship for Technology and Wellness at Berkeley and had previously been exposed to the idea of social isolation and loneliness which was something we felt strongly diving into when we approached the challenge.

What it does

ERA is an app to increase the social connectedness for older women in low and middle income countries in order to improve physical and mental well-being.

How we built it

We designed a prototype of the user interface with ERA using the app-prototyping platform Justinmind.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge was working around making the the platform adaptable to people with low-tech phones to ensure we were reaching the biggest range of older women in LMIC's.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are really proud of our prototype for ERA, we were able to condense and simplify our ideas into an easy to use app that could be made adaptable to different platforms.

What we learned

As a team making sure that we communicated well with each other really made a difference in how we shared our ideas and the efficiency in being able to prioritize what we needed to get focus on. From the challenge we learned a lot more about how social isolation for older women in LMIC's was impacting their health and the perspectives to addressing this problem.

What's next for ERA

We are hoping to take the next step in refining and developing ERA by seeking the right mentorship and through the appropriate research to make the most effective use of this app in resolving social isolation.

Built With

• justinmind