HelpLink

Google Firebase Auth
User Profile
Wallet
Event Organizer
Chata GPT chat bot

Inspiration

During a group discussion, Suvass Ravala shared his vision for developing a mobile application to assist with his physical disability. He articulated the challenges he faces when experiencing seizures, particularly in conveying pertinent information to those around him and ensuring appropriate care is administered. Often, individuals witnessing a seizure will hastily dial emergency services or become overwhelmed with anxiety, neglecting crucial measures that can alleviate the sufferer's discomfort. Ravala emphasized the significance of positioning the person on a flat surface and keeping them away from hazardous objects to minimize further injury.

He further highlighted that conventional emergency response systems tend to arrive after the seizure has ended and provide standard heart rate and blood pressure evaluations to ascertain the individual's stability. To remedy this, our team aimed to design a platform that streamlines communication between individuals and first responders by enabling users to swiftly share their medical history and customized directives.

We also identified that event organizers may be unprepared to handle such situations, and thus sought to incorporate a feature that stores medical records of all participants for easy access.

What it does

HelpLink allows users to easily generate a QR code to share their profile info. As others scan the QR code, they instantly share their profile data with each other. This data consists of their symptoms, immediate treatment instructions, and emergency contacts.

One of the practical applications of this is organizing events, where both the sharing of this information as well as checking in to the event become as easy as one click.

How we built it

We built this intuitive app using Swift. The reason we chose this is because it allows for easy integration with iOS software and helps us take advantage of popular iPhone features, such as lockscreen widgets.

We implemented user authentication and stored login info in a database using Firebase.

The webpage with user info generated when scanning a QR code was designed with HTML and CSS to create a simple and easy to read page.

Challenges we ran into

One of the major challenges we faced was identifying the purpose and use cases of our app. Last night, we faced a crossroad where we realized a major flaw in our design. We redesigned our app to tackle the communication between users and have this happen before a possible emergency, rather than using it. Fortunately, it was simple to use our existing app at that point to pivot in the right direction.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of how simple and easy to use our app is. Particularly for those with physical disabilities, our app is extremely accessible. We are happy to say that Suvass along with his family and friends would love to use this app.

What we learned

Through this exciting and challenging project, we learned how to develop an intuitive front-end application using Swift, and generate QR codes to make communication efficient.

What's next for HelpLink

Our immediate next step is to replace our OpenAI chatbot with a medical API that provides more reliable and trustworthy information to help immediately diagnose and treat a person during an emergency. We also hope to make a more advanced event page.