Kisaki

The personal desktop companion for the elderly.

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Inspiration

Helping the elderly is an ever-increasing important task in the modern world. In fact, "slower to adopt new technologies than younger adults" (National Library of Medicine). Many may experience difficulties traversing the internet: translations, explanations, fact checking. Kisaki removes all these issues and provides ease of access regardless of a user's technical skills

What it does

Kisaki is an Electron desktop companion focused on accessibility and ease of use. It combines a configurable dashboard, text-assist tools, and voice output into a lightweight cross-platform app.

How we built it

  • Electron
  • Next.js (Pages Router)
  • React + TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS + Radix UI
  • Hugging Face Inference API (@huggingface/inference)

Challenges we ran into

Implementing a UI that is friendly to the elderly yet also modern, responsive, and adhering to basic UI standards was the hardest! In addition, implementing the backend to the application was crucial. Electron is notoriously known for its difficult implementation, but it pays off for the smooth user experience out of the box.

What we learned

Implementing an app like this is a hard journey, and there was a lot to learn. Research was done in order to pick the best possible features for Kisaki.

What's next for Kisaki

In the future, many more updates are to come! More translations, more features pertaining to AI usage, and most of all, ease of access to the elderly. Features could include OCR for text that isn’t selectable or voice recognition when the user is talking.

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