Inspiration
Ever since my grandma was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, she has had a really difficult time remembering basic information such as birthdays, locations, and even my name. Alzheimer's is also the sixth leading cause of death and the most common cause of dementia among the elderly.
This inspired us to come up with a way to boost cognitive skills and potentially detect or slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease.
What it does
Our platform contains 4 cognitive games that test for different types of memory, reaction times, and logical thinking. They are designed for their scores to be converted into MMSE scores to better analyze the cognitive function and slow the progression of Alzheimer's. In addition, user scores and match histories are stored and users can view the dashboard to analyze their improvement over time and compare themselves to others via the leaderboard.
How we built it
We built this platform using NextJS as the frontend, NodeJS backend, and MySQL and MongoDB as our datastores. We also used Twilio API for alerts to remind users to play the games regularly to maintain cognitive function.
Challenges we ran into
Learning NextJS, doing extensive research on Alzheimer's Disease to find an accurate way to convert game scores to MMSE scores.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Creating a beautiful frontend design
- Building a full stack web app with real world applications
What we learned
We learned a lot about full stack development and its life cycle process in a high pressure environment. We used many technologies that are common in today's tech world such as Next JS, React, MongoDB, and MySQL. More important, we learned how to work in an interdisciplinary field where we had to incorporate and work with data that CS students are not familiar with such as biology.
What's next for Memora
After the hackathon, we definitely plan to refine out the program and fully implement all of its features to its fullest, and ironing out all of the bugs that we were unable to crush within such a short period of time. Deployment and upkeep will be the final stages of our web app since the goal of this app is for others to play these games for their benefit and providing them with an assessment on their health.
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