How did Healthbot come to life?
It came to me when I wanted to help my friends with their daily struggles, I started to over extend more than what I could comfortably handle.
However I still wanted to help and felt awful when I felt like I was not paying attention to my friends. In my own life I often forget my
basic needs such as brushing my hair, forgetting to eat etc. It's not something a lot of people like to admit but I know I am not the only one
who forgets. It's not a nice feeling to forget or feel too exhausted to think about taking care of yourself.
I also have had bad days, but didn't want to over share to others, and sometimes I just want my thoughts recorded without having to ask anyone
else for assistance. Having a quick alert system in place can help lessen the feel of your problems, check in after certain times in the day
,having a daily log that can help you and your doctor know if your new medication is working, or how you feel from day to day having a log
may help relieve some people from the pressure of day to day life. I also thought it would be a nice tool to have a questionnaire that
could help you understand patterns, stressors, destressors, things that may have been forgotten in the shuffle of day to day life.
I did not only think of myself, but also thought of my friends with their daily troubles, feeling too busy to take a moment
to actually check in on your well being. It can become too much. So Health bot was my solution to be there for my friends
in need without having them feel like they are over sharing or being a burden. It can just get it out to an unbiased 3rd party that can
record it in a daily log which could be beneficial if you are going to therapy or trying a new medication.
As I thought of what it could do, I wanted to improve the medical assistant programs ability to assist the user in daily life.
Finding out their de-stressors, giving them an optional to do list depending on their day, and if they have the “battery level”
to do an object within that optional to-do list or if they wish to be reminded of it the next day so it isn't forgotten.
HealthBot is an app that I have been trying to create on and off for a year and decided to make this weeks project a mock up
for my to be app to help with others mental health as best as it can. It cannot be a replacement for therapy or medication but
I am hoping that it will help ease the burden of what is weighing someone down. Help them when they are stressed by giving them
the pre-provided destressors given by the user in the questionnaire. It can also record days, either by text or recording. It could
also be as simple as answering a few pop up notifications for the application to look back on and see how your week was. Of course
the more information that can be given the better I hope the healthbot can assist many people once I actually complete it.