Project Details

For this project, we were given two real-life patients from within the McMaster community. One pateint was deaf and the other had an undiagnosed autoimmune disorder. We got to have group interviews with each patient and ask them questions about their conditions to try and determine a problem that could be solved through engineering. 

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Project Timeline

6 weeks

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Group Members

Ansh Kuckreja

Meera Moorthy

Rachel don-Wauchope

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Project Summary

• After attending both of their meetings, our team decided that Ms Liu, the patient with the autoimmune disorder, provided more potential for an engineered solution

• She described that one of the biggest problems of her disease is symptom tracking

• Her disease causes her joints to be inflamed to the point where she can't even hold a pen

• She has virtually no fine motor skills and can't record her symptoms to tell her doctor

• We decided to program an app for her, using a prototyping software called 'JustinMind' that was tailored exactly to her needs

• The hitboxes on every page would be large so that she wouldn't have difficulty entering any data

• The pages would be programmed to her needs with localizations aspects and her most frequent experienced symptoms so that she doesn't need to type anything into the app

• There would also be a voice to text hitbox in every localization so that she can describe anything new or worth noting that isn't already existing in the app

• Finally, we included a mental health component filled with things that make her smile in order to try and keep her spirits high, as she expressed challenges with that aspect of her life