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