Project 2: Divergent Design
@Shaw Chen @Ethan @Maggie @Yinghou Wang
Brainstorming Features:
- Time Capsule: Allow patients to store messages/images/tokens to be sent out to family members after they pass.
- Patient-controlled messaging: Patients can control if family members can respond to their messages or not.
- Digital Diary: Patients can use the app as a journal and mood tracker, which they can share to the public and/or family members. Voice journaling can also be an option for accessibility.
- Digital Tokens: Family members can send digital tokens like flowers or cards to the patients to show that they are thinking of them when they can’t be there in person.
- Educational resource: When the app starts up, family members and patients get a walk through of what to expect while in palliative care.
- Set preferences: Patients can set their preferences in the app of how much contact they would like, what cultural/religious customs their care providers should abide by, etc.
- Virtual support groups: A forum or safe space to connect and chat with other patients that are going through the same thing.
- Digital shrines: a method for families to share their favourite memories of the patient, assembled into a digital shrine after the patient passes. Could be viewed in AR ?
- AI-chatbot companion: An AI-powered digital support companion for when family members aren’t around, or if patients don’t have anyone and are alone.
- Selective Shared Calendar: Patients control visit and care schedule edits.
- Secure External Email: Send secure emails to non-app contacts with response control.
- Timed Content Deletion: Auto-delete tagged contents after prolonged app inactivity.
- Legacy Messaging: Send preset messages if the app remains unauthorized for set days.
- Local Patient Chat: Connect with nearby patients for casual conversations.
- Patient-Curated Wish List: Family and friends can view and fulfill patient's wishes.
- Future-Open Time Capsule: Store messages and media for later revelation.
- Personal Video Journal: Create and share video diary entries.
- Care Tracking Surveys: Begin and Regular surveys to monitor patients’ habits and comfort zoom of using the app.”
- Anonymous Community Board: Share thoughts anonymously with fellow patients.
- Interactive Caregiving Guide: Dynamic tips and strategies for caregivers.
- Agent Assist: This feature allows authorized agents (family members or caregivers) to support the patient's app registration and usage, ensuring seamless access for those with physical limitations.
- Voice Mode: Designed for vision-impaired users, this mode offers voice navigation and speech-to-text capabilities, enabling patients to interact with the app using vocal commands and audio feedback.
- Wellness Survey: Upon account setup, this survey captures the patient's current health condition and preferences, ensuring personalized care and communication options tailored to their needs.
- Health Synopsis: A feature that generates brief, comprehensive reports about the patient's condition and progress, which can be easily shared with healthcare professionals for informed care.
- Advanced Directives Planner: This tool enables patients to set up and customize their advanced care wishes and directives, ensuring their choices are respected and known to all relevant parties.
- Memory Lane: A digital scrapbook where patients and families can upload and share photos, videos, and notes, creating a shared space for memories and emotional support.
- Medication Tracker: Keeps track of the patient's medication schedule, sends reminders, and allows for updates on medication effectiveness and side effects, improving treatment adherence and reporting.
- Emotional Wellness Toolkit: Offers resources like guided meditation, relaxation techniques, and access to counseling services, supporting the emotional well-being of patients and their families.
- Family Forum: A secure, private space for family members to communicate, plan, and share updates, fostering a supportive community around the patient.
- Accessible Design Options: Customizable text sizes, color contrasts, and easy navigation features to make the app more accessible for users with various disabilities.
App Outline:
Concept: Preferences
- Purpose: customize app experience and/or interface
- Operating Principle: after an interval t, update a set of features f based on a set of responses r
Concept: Delay
- Purpose: release content after a specified amount of time
- Operating Principle: after a specified time t, selected content will be released, and all unselected content will be deleted.
Concept: Message[ T ]
- Purpose: share content with others
- Operating Principle: if e is enabled*,** then a piece of content c of type T will be shared with a set of recipients r*
Concept: Diary[ T ]
- Purpose: private content
- Operating principle: create a piece of content of type T that will not be shared until requested
Concept: Group[ T ]
- Purpose set of items
- Operating Principle: given a set of items i, categorize into subsets with a name n
Concept: Wish
- Purpose dynamic and desirable tasks to be completed
- Operating principle create a wish w with a description d and completion time t, whose status s can be changed to fulfilled once completed
Concept: Forum
- purpose a environment to encourage discussion and collaboration
- operating principle based on a group of participants r and a topic t, create a forum f where every participant in r can write and read about t
Comparables
Mood Tracker Through Music Mood tracking: Can we integrate a similar feature to track patients' moods based on their updat, offering insights into their emotional well-being?
Patient-centric approach in Mind Peace: How can we incorporate goal-oriented programs to support mental health and wellness in our app?
Messaging concept: Could we use this lock screen note idea to allow family members to leave quick, loving messages for patients? Or vis versa?
SafeBeyond
Memory preservation: How can this time capsule model inspire our 'Time Capsule' feature, allowing patients to leave messages and memories for sharing?
Emergency notes: Can we create a similar function for patients to store critical information or messages accessible only under specific conditions?
Comprehensive planning: How can we emulate this app's end-of-life planning tools to enhance our 'Advanced Directives Planner' feature?
Health updates: Could we use this concept to simplify how patients share their health journey with family and friends in our app?
Cake: Create a Free End of Life Plan
End of life planning: What features can we borrow to make our app a comprehensive tool for end-of-life planning and decision-making? Like a digital obiturary?
Forum: Can build up a forum in app for patients to share thoughts, ask questions and establish new connections?
Instagram: enable / disable comments
Comment control: How can we implement a similar feature to give patients control over who can comment or interact with their posts in our app?
Storyboard
Start to finish process of using the app: patient first sign on (set up preferences, learn about what to expect) → using app day to day (update preferences periodically) → after death (content deletion, Time Capsule, digital shrines).
Messaging: patient has something they would like to express to family members → patient opens app and messages them → patient can set response settings
Support: patient expresses that they want more support through digital mood board or journal→ patient releases journal entry → family member sees the journal entry but can’t be at the hospital with patient at the moment but still wants to show their support → family member sends digital token → patient can respond back
