ShareEat

Inspiration

Through working with older adults this past semester, we have found that 1) older adults and college students face the common challenge of loneliness, that 2) older adults and college students hardly have opportunities to interact, and that 3) intergenerational connections have been found to improve the health and strength of communities across the world. Our app, ShareEat, facilitates a process that has amplified neural networks and has enhanced what makes us human for millennia: cooking and eating together. ShareEat hopes to make holiday dinner conversations more frequent, generations more connected, and people stronger, together.

What it does

Uses a recommendation system to pair older and younger users to interact in person and cook or dine together.

How I built it

We used Figma to design a mid-fi wireframe that walks through the key components and features of the app, including landing page, profile builder, and interest/recipe selector.

Challenges I ran into

A main challenge of implementation will be user engagement and recruitment - enrollment of older adults, getting them onboard with a digital platform and sustained usage by younger adults. Another challenge we ran into is funding and business partnership formation.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Being able to tackle social isolation in not one but two groups through an intergenerational solution, and in coming up with a well-developed UI/UX design that caters to both user groups (older and younger adults).

What I learned

The importance of lo-fi wire framing before developing a mid-fi prototype, and how to settle competing ideas by forming hybrid ideas. Also learned about matching algorithms and recommendation systems that can be used to develop apps that pair users together.

What's next for ShareEat

Expand ShareEat to more interests such as art, music, and games (ShareArt, ShareMusic, ShareGames) to form more intergenerational connections.

Built With

• figma
• invision