Farmily UP

Inspiration

Studies have shown that mood disorders are becoming younger, and there are signs of an increase in youth suicide rates. Therefore, it is widely recognized that family relationships are a key factor in children's mental health. Cultivating the bond between parents and children from an early age is crucial. Recording memorable moments and daily moods can help bring them closer together. Parents can also plan ahead during school holidays and prepare for more happy family time. Through Farmily UP, we hope to foster family harmony and encourage parents to pay attention to their children's physical and mental health.

What it does

Farmily UP is a mobile application designed to help parents manage and track their children's feeling, activities, schedules, and family relationships.

How we built it

Frontend - React Native to support iOS and Android Backend - Amazon Cognito for authentication, Amazon DynamoDB Database for data storage AI Service - Amazon Textract for extracting school holiday information

Challenges we ran into

1. The school holiday schedule format varies among schools, requiring time to comprehend its unique structure, and utilizing machine learning to learn it.
2. Farmily UP aims to collect children's feelings every day. Therefore, we have designed the Magical Garden to engage children in selecting their feelings (like watering) to make the flower grow. enabling us to continuously collect the data.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we are not familiar with frontend development and able to take an idea from inspiration to completion in just 2~3 weeks.

What we learned

Farmily UP: One of the features is to detect children's school holidays from the school schedule. Previously, we had to use OCR to find the text, which was not very accurate, and we needed to fine-tune the results. Nowadays, AWS provides an AI-managed service - AWS Textract, which is smart and easy to adopt. However, since the current version does not support the Chinese language, we hope it can be improved.

What's next for Farmily UP

In this stage, the target users of Farmily UP are parents who are building family connections. We would like to extend the functionality to allow teenagers to use it independently, connect to social platforms, and utilize data collection in the future, so that related NGOs can provide more relevant support and workshops. In addition, some parents will arrange extracurricular activities for their children based on the school calendar and timetable. Therefore, we can try to cooperate with different educational institutions or learning centers to provide an appropriate platform for both parties. Moreover, we plan to leverage AI to analyze the historical data on feelings and activities to recommend suitable activities.

Built With

• aws-cognito
• aws-dynamodb
• aws-textract
• react-native