My Covid-19 assistant

My Covid-19 Assistant is a simple android application developed to assist people during the pandemic, providing a virtual triage, advice, and a self-monitoring sheet table.

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Introduction

My Covid-19 Assistant is a simple android application developed to assist people during the pandemic, providing a virtual triage, advice, and a self-monitoring sheet table.

Inspiration

After observing my family in quarantine get desperate over every symptom of sickness they had, independently if it was an indicator of Covid-19, performing unwise actions after the suspicion or confirmed contamination, and sometimes forgetting to fill in the 14-day contamination table.

What it does

An easy-to-use tool that helps common people by performing diagnostics of the symptoms' gravity and recommending procedures to the users based on the symptoms, relevant information or previously sickness, and isolation conditions. Providing a 14-day isolation diary to monitor the users that had contact with contaminated people, and a faq about the pandemic, as well.

How we built it

Using the Android Studio API and some research about the virus.

How to use this application

First, the users have to answer some questions to create their profile. After, they can freely navigate to one of our two tools:

  1. Virtual triage.
    Q: What is it?
    A: Consists of a series of questions related to the symptoms and isolation conditions.
    Q: What it does?
    A: Our algorithm calculates punctuation and outputs the recommended action to the user.
    Q: When to use?
    A: When the user suspect they might be infected.

  2. Self-monitor table.
    Q: What is it?
    A: A table in which the person registers relevant information (temperature, symptoms), which could be used later by a doctor.
    Q: What it does?
    A: Our algorithm calculates punctuation and outputs the recommended action to the user.
    Q: Why 14 days?
    A: It is the longest time between the exposition to the sickness and the symptoms start to begin.
    Q: When to use?
    A: When the user has been in contact with an infected person.

Challenges we ran into

We never had made an application or programmed using java or XML, however, we knew other similar languages, so the hardest part was programming an app rather than using the language.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The fact we could make the structure, and a barely functional application, even though having 0 experience in a fairly short time.

What we learned

The basics of how to make an android application, using the Android API, and programming in java.

What's next for My Covid-19 assistant

Improve the tools created, add minor features, ameliorate the design.

Go-to-Market Evaluation

Although it is not finished, it is a simple project that won't take too long and can be accessed by all android users with at least a KitKat device.

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