3. Overall vision of Healthwise
A socially-oriented application that helps smokers quit by:
Helping kill his smoking impulses
Showing the effects of smoking on his environment
Pointing out myths of smoking
Helping him keep track of his daily progress
Allowing his loved ones to send him encouragements easily
Allowing him to publish his progress on platforms such as
Facebook and Twitter
Providing easy access to external support
4. Current Healthwise: Trivia
Aids in killing impulse by
providing a fun, quick-
paced trivia
Helps dispel common
myths about smoking
Current trivia screen shot
5. Improved Trivia:
Provides a score so that the
smoker has an incentive to
play it
Scores can be shared over
Facebook
Questions can be better
designed as answer choices
have increased
Prototype of improved trivia
6. Keeping track of smoking
The smoker can record how much
he smoked each day
Can be used to keep track how
much a smoker spent each day on
cigarettes
Augments other features such as
showing visual feedback to
smoker on his effects on the
environment
7. Environment effects due to smoking
The smoker is given visual feedback on
environmental effects of smoking
Visual feedback currently is in the form of a
tree
The tree grows healthier as the smoker
smokes less
The tree deteriorates as the smoker
smokes more
Aim is to create a sense of
attachment to the tree
Can potentially be shared on
Facebook for user-appeal
8. Encouragements
Allows loved ones to send
encouraging messages to smokers
easily by SMS
Messages are shown to smokers
clearly to remind them that he has
people supporting him
Can possibly be integrated with
Twitter and Facebook to allow
posting of encouragements from
these platforms
9. Access to external support
Smokers can easily call important telephone numbers for
support
Access to various support-group websites
10. Application appeal
A smoker would use Healthwise because:
It is easy to use and intuitive
Has an appealing visual interface
Empowers him by giving him tools to keep track of his
smoking habit and to kick his smoking impulses
Can easily view encouragements from his loved ones
Possible future features include:
Integration with existing social platforms such as Facebook
or Twitter
Allowing him to share his progress easily so as to
encourage others to quit
11. Extensibility
Multiple options exist in extending this application. Some of
them include:
Giving users a mini-blogging tool to blog their progress in
quitting
Improving of visual feedback by changing the tree into some
other view
Showing a more detailed view of the effects of smoking on
their personal health
Adapt the application to support other kinds of addictions
such as drinking
12. Extensibility
Beside more social features, a version of Healthwise can be
created for health-care providers. This version could:
Allow doctors to monitor their patients' progress
Allow doctors and patients to remotely send each other
messages easily
Allow doctors to collect statistics on smokers to better
administer help
13. Commercial Viability
Both the social and healthcare provider versions of Healthwise
have good commercial viability.
Social version of Healthwise can be spread in the following
manner:
Non-smokers buying the app for their friends who smoke
Viral nature of social platforms
Smokers might buy the app after finding out that their
friends who used to smoke quit after using Healthwise
14. Commercial Viability
The healthcare provider version can be sold directly to
healthcare providers. They have an incentive to buy it as:
It gives them better tools in monitoring their patients and in
administering help
Allows them to provide better health service
Allows them to provide a more personal care and hence
improve effectiveness
15. Contact Details
Ali Razeen. HP: 9624 6662. Email: alirazeen@gmail.com
Rollen Gomes: HP: 9185 8575. Email: rollen_gomes@yahoo.
com
Phyo Si Thu: HP: 9005 5641. Email: herculie@gmail.com