# A.I. ### Hack@Brown Fumi Honda, Queena Zhang, Yang Zhang, Ziyin Ma ## Inspiration In 2018, about 1 in 59 children is diagnosed with autism. Treatments are expensive and over-booked, parents couldn’t afford more accompanying time. **Visual communication** is more effective than text for intellectual and social development of children with autism. ## What it does With our "sketch captioning" technology, they can join conversation with AI via drawing! [Demo Site](http://35.185.86.112/) ## How I built it - We built a CNN model served on **SPELL**. - We built a webpage with **webflow** for interaction including (user) drawing sketches and making conversation. - We used GCP service to synthesis text-to-speech read aloud to users. - We **interviewed** with multiple autism-related institutions and physicians in China to understand the pain points of early autism treatment. - We **validated** our ideas on a medical basis under professional guidance. ## Challenges I ran into - We co-developed with **SPELL** team to overcome difficulties in this newly-released product. - We maintained interactiveness of our web app while keep it good-looking with **webflow**. - We encountered two new technologies (**SPELL**, **webflow**) and learned to leverage them efficiently.