An android application that makes it simpler to follow your therapies, getting monitored and completely makeover your lifestyle.

1. Master in Engineering in Computer Science
Pervasive Systems
a.y. 2015-16
Prof. Chatzigiannakis
RecipeX:
Your personal caregiver
and lifestyle makeover

2. The team
Fabrizio
Farinacci
Sara
Veterini
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3. 1.
Why
RecipeX?
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4. ‘’
“If I had knew that
healing was so difficult,
I’d have never got sick!”
A patient… and a nurse
So, facing your medical issues in
the right way is a DIFFICULT
activity… even for experts!
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5. Problem
It’s difficult to maintain an healthy lifestyle while
following your therapies and nursing prescriptions
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6. Solution
Give to the people an application capable to
register, monitor, remember and share
therapies and promote a healthy lifestyle
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7. Main idea
▣ Helping patients to follow their therapies,
simplifying the communication with the
health care assistants
▣ Giving health care assistants a simple and
useful tool to keep track of the therapies of
their assisted
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8. Patients
▣ Remember therapies
and prescriptions
▣ Send measurements to
their caregivers
▣ Plan an healthy and
secure lifestyle
Use Cases
Caregivers
▣ Monitor vital signs
▣ Setup the treatments
requirements remotely
▣ Give feedbacks to
promote a healthy
lifestyle for their assisted
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9. Main Functionalities
Everything is recorded
Record your vital signs
and your nursing
prescription in the
dedicated sections
Nothing is forgotten
Timed notifications will
remind you about your
therapeutic treatments and
measurement requirements.
Always monitored
Share your recorded data
with your family and your
personal assistant. Keep
your lifestyle under control.
Track & Plan good habits
Everything is tracked into a
personal calendar, to be
monitored and to plan a
healthy and secure lifestyle.
Monitor your progress
An health database, to store
informations about long term
treatments and keep track of
your progress.
Ask for help
Easier to get in touch with
your caregiver to immediately
solve whatever kind of issue
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10. 3.
Opinions
Let’s see what
the users think
about our idea
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11. Your opinion counts!
▣ We setup a Google form survey to ask users
what they really needed from our application,
and what they thought about the initial
interface.
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12. Caregivers
As a
caregiver,
would you
like to
monitor and
be
monitored
with relation
to your
therapies
and your
lifestyle?
How much
do you think
it is useful?
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13. Caregivers (2)
How do you think it is useful to monitor the state of
therapies and measurements of your patients?
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14. Caregivers (3)
How much do you think it is useful to receive notifications
about what you have to do for your therapies and your
lifestyle(Pills, Measurements, etc.)?
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15. Caregivers (4)
Give a rank to the main screen.
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16. Caregivers (5)
What secondary fields would you like to be reserved on
your profile?
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17. Patients
Would you like to have an application that helps you in
fulfilling your duties for your therapies, and helps you in
following a healthier and safer lifestyle?
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18. Patients (2)
How much do you think it is useful to have a calendar
managed by the application that is shared with your
relatives and caregivers(physiotherapists, dietitians,
speech terapists etc.)? 16

19. Patients (3)
How much do you think it is useful to get instantly and
locally notified about what your therapy requires?
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20. Patients (4)
Give a rank to the main screen
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21. All users
Which color do you prefer? (Green or Cyan)
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22. Your opinion counts!
For more results, look here:
https://docs.google.
com/forms/d/1_kQ44Uhj8FHnaKdo3cvPWCfHK
hpC8Lyu0BAVw85eBlQ/edit?
usp=drive_web#responses
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23. 3.
Overall
Architecture
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24. Overall Architecture
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25. Architecture: Main concepts
▣ The frontend is a mobile application (Android)
▣ The backend is a Python application running
on Google App Engine
▣ The frontend interacts with a Web Service API
offered by the GAE backend through Google
Cloud Endpoints
▣ Through the GAE backend, the app access to:
□ Google + API, to register the user
□ Google Calendar API, to store the history of
measurement and therapies and to notify the user
about its therapeutical requirements.

26. Beacons (BLE) NFC Tags (NFC)
Beacons (BLE):
▣ Range of few meters
▣ Up 2 years of usage before
battery replacement
▣ Price ≅ 20$ - 35$ each
(depending volume)
▣ Suitable for detecting how
the user it’s moving in the
surrounding environment
NFC Tags (NFC):
▣ Range of only few
centimeters... but it’s OK!
▣ No needs of battery
▣ Price ≅ 0.10$ - 0.60$ each
(depending volume)
▣ Suitable for being attached
to physical objects and
trigger specific actions

27. 4.
Our Idea:
Recipex
A mobile
application to
help patients in
their therapies
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28. Android project
RecipeX: the simplest way to
follow your therapies, getting
monitored and completely
makeover your lifestyle.
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29. Home screen
(Patient side)
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30. Home screen
(Caregivers side )
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31. Rapid access to
main sections of
the application
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32. Fill your profile
with your
personal and
professional info
Scroll down

33. Add your relatives
and caregivers
and contact them
if you need help.
Tap here

34. Look at you
therapies
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35. See your caregivers
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36. Click here to go to
your treatments
calendar
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37. See all the
measurements done
by your assisted
Tap here

38. Setup treatments
for your assisted
remotely
Tap here

39. Use the NFC tags
to insert quicker
the informations

40. Click here to ask for
help if you need!
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41. Our plan for future:
▣ Make user experience better, introducing tips
on how to use the application step by step
▣ Test the application with a large amount of
users, including caregivers
▣ Monitor physiological needs of patients
▣ Add support to Google Maps API to show
pharmacies/hospitals nearby

42. Thanks!
Any questions?
https://github.com/FabFari/recipex
Sara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-veterini-667684116
Fabrizio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabrizio-farinacci-496679116
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