Help Yourself

Inspiration -

Millions of people with disabilities are having a hard time coping up with their challenges, be it handling their daily life tasks or obtaining equal career opportunities in the global job market. According to the estimations, In developing countries, 80% to 90% of people with disabilities of working age are unemployed. In most developed countries the official unemployment rate for people with impairments of working age is at least twice that for those who have no disability. So we thought of coming up with an admirable piece of technology for disabled individuals that are easier to use than ever before and has a significant influence on their lives.

What it does -

Help Yourself features to assist in making personal and professional life easier. The features incorporated are: After a unique user login--

1. It provides recommendations based on disability conditions and thus enables the users to engage with and learn daily life hacks in unique ways making them more independent to easily handle their activities/chores.
2. It helps users with limited mobility to shop online, they can now order medical supplies and have them delivered directly to their door.
3. It highlights job openings available to potential candidates based on the disability mentioned. Also, we have integrated a text-to-speech feature into our application so that users with vision disabilities can find themselves some ease.

How we built it -

We began by creating a minimalistic user interface (UI) specially designed to take into account their problems and later worked on dart and flutter to create the application, we linked each medical item to their respective shopping site and personalized daily life hack videos to YouTube, we also integrated Azure Cloud Service to enable the text-to-speech feature.

Challenges we ran into -

We had a hard time coming up with solutions that could cater to the actual needs of the disabled population without making them feel any less than ordinary individuals.

Accomplishments that we're proud of -

We are proud that we now understand how to work with APIs as they are vital tools for businesses in all industries and we are glad that we were able to assemble a solution to assist the disabled population and manage our features to work quickly and on schedule.

What we learned -

1. Azure API Implementation
2. Data Extraction

What's next for Help Yourself -

We will integrate ML/AI to present users with suggestions depending on the videos they watch, a job-matching platform to showcase skills and capabilities through videos using Azure Cognitive Services and Machine Learning, we will keep the train of thorough continuing by providing customized newsletters based on their interest, highlighting successful people having disabilities as an inspiration, and providing calendar notifications for their necessary appointments.

Built With

• azure
• dart
• flutter