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