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ANDROID APP. FOR ELDERY
Jack Whelan
Introduction
Regular Exercise is an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle
Having a structured routine helps making it a regular activity
Phones are constantly reminding us of birthdays and other events, why not use a phone to encourage a user to do some exercise
Introduction
Eating health is the other important factor of leading a heathly lifeslyle
It is not always clear how many calories our food contains
Phones can access huge databases online, why not use this to help users decide what to eat
Introduction
Many foods contain substances that can cause allergic reactions
Often it is not obvious what ingedients are present in products
Elderly people often cannot read the ingredients because of a too small font
Solution!
Healthy lifestile advising app. Daily food suggestions Alert messages encouraging exercise Game to keep mind busy Indoor step up activity Weather based suggestions for exercises Barcode scanner to prevent allergic
substances to be ingested
Layout
Simple user interface with tabbed layout and big buttons
Initial Setup
Once of set up required (can be adjusted any time)
Example of Calorie Monitoring
Graphs calories burned per hour over the day
User can see when they are most active
Shows distance walked based on users step stride
Indoor step up counter
Graphs step up rate Shows demonstration
video Can be reset Easy to use
Touch Game
Game to test reflexes
Highscore list Slighlty addicting
Barcode Scanner
The following products are currently in the online database for demonstration purposes: Galaxy Carmel 48g Tayto Cheese and Onion Chrisp 25g Nature Valley Oasts and Honey
To show what happens when a product is not found Haribo StartMix is not in the database
Weather
Can display today and tomorrows weather conditions for any location in the world
Makes decision based on current and future weather
Designing Icons
GIMP Photo editor was used Icons have two states – selected and
unselected
Food Recomendation
Downloads list of food and asscociated calories
User can click the food they want to eat
This will be added to daily calorie consumed count
Exercise recomendation based on food consumed
Project Milestones
Identification of suitable exercises for older adults
Integration of accelerometer based algorithm to monitor exercise activity
Exercise performance tracking over time. Video demonstration of exercises
Integration of all system components in user friendly and attractive manner
System development to provide increased functionality for use by older adults
Conclusion
This is a very usefull little app that has a lot of potential if large companies such as Tesco and Dunnes Stores provided their databases for the various food based alogythms in the app.
Future versions could integrate social networking where friends are infromed of other users activity to motivate them to go for a walk