Alexa Build-a-thon Mood Monitor Skill for Seniors and Elderly citizens
- Lack of communication with friends and family
- Fear of interupting busy schedule of friends and family
- Need for companionship and personal connection
- Need to monitor health while maintaining independence
- Lack of confidence in one’s ability to use technology effectively
- An application that enables you tell Alexa how you feel during the day.
- Alexa is able to suggest activities for you depending on your mood.
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- If you're happy and the weather is good, Alexa can list out all the events available for you to attend today
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- If you're sad, Alexa can offer to tell you a joke or play you a favorite song
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- If you're lonely, Alexa can tell you a story to cheer you up.
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- If you're ill, Alex can connect to the 'teledoctor' platform, or put you in touch with your PCP
- At the end of every week, Alexa sends a report of your reported mood to your care-giver, family, or doctor.
- If Alexa doesn't hear from you for a couple of days, she can send an email or text message to your care-giver, to ensure that everything is alright
-Our product provides the elderly with three main functions; it gives them somebody to talk to, helps them plan out their daily schedule, and tracks their overall physical and mental health.
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This addresses the problems that many elderly people have with being on their own. They crave autonomy but still need a gentle reminder to take care of themselves. This piece of technology is a humanistic daily contact point for them, which creates a personal relationship that adheres to a schedule.
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This provides simplistic stability for elders, likewise helping them feel more comfortable with modern technology.
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Our product is unique in that it offers more than an automated scripted response to consumers. Alexa will ideally have a list of unique responses that she can use to answer each particular mood that a person expresses. Our application is more of a dialogue between two people than a constant questioning of Alexa.