Feelin'Fly

Inspiration

Flying on airplanes can be scary, at least for some of us. The idea of throwing up because of nausea or being crammed for a long time can be daunting. Especially, not knowing what to do in these scenarios can only cause more of a bad experience. However, many people take medication for various reasons, and making sure you take the right medications in accordance with your health conditions and what you currently take is crucially important. That's where Feelin'Fly comes in handy! Users will no longer have to flounder amidst an inundation of myths and misinformation that the web provides with respect to certain medical conditions while flying. This health portal, which will be embedded into existing plane seat back screens and through the plane wifi on their phones, will allow users to self-diagnose common symptoms and make more educated decisions.

What it does

Feelin'Fly is an application and feature that we hope major airlines take in to complement their current system. Our application allows passengers to inform the airlines of each passenger's health condition and the medications they are taking to be able to help in emergency situations. Through a series of questions, passengers will be able to know our suggestions on if they should take medication, what medications to take, and tips to help them feel better in times of distress.

How we built it

We developed the front-end prototype using Figma. For the CSS and React portions, we utilized Anima to understand the code and to make any adjustments to our prototype design. For the backend mock-up, we utilized C++, classes/objects, and vectors to connect the various components (passenger, passengers, symptom, and symptoms) to work together in unison.

Challenges we ran into

As beginner hackers, we had little to no experience in CSS and React. Thus, when we had to implement our idea and design we were unsure of how to do so. So, through learning online, we converted our Figma design to CSS and React. This let us get a template in order to try to complete the front-end portion of our application.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of making a mock backend system to help airline companies better understand how we wish our idea gets implemented. Additionally, we are proud that we tried to learn what we are doing, together, to be able to submit our project today.

What we learned

As beginner hackers, we had to familiarize ourselves with the tools we used. So through watching youtube videos and reading guides online, we learned more about using Figma, CSS, and React to develop the front-end prototype of the application. For the backend, we learned more about object-oriented programming by better understanding classes and objects relation diagrams.

What's next for Feelin'Fly

In the future, we hope airlines take in and implement our idea. We hope to add more functionality to this hub to better help the passenger experience, while keeping the crew aware of any concerns the passengers have. In addition, future functionalities will also include the ability to see how various amounts of alcohol might affect medication usage. We also envision that menu items on the plane's dining options can be linked to the allergen section in the future to alert flyers if a menu option contains one of their specified allergens. We hope that our health hub, will change the future of flying, help educate flyers on how to properly deal with common flying/health issues, and help flight attendants best help their fliers.

Built With

• anima
• c++
• css
• figma
• react
• visual-studio