Amidst this unprecedented covid-19 pandemic, countless people are draining themselves, both mentally and physically. During lockdown and quarantine, individuals have began feeling lost and alone. Additionally, the lack of social distancing present in hospitals and medical clinic seems to enhance surges in covid cases.
Many individuals are lining up for vaccination appointments and covid tests which increases the spread of this ruthless virus within our community. This is where Covi-track comes in.
Covi-track is an all-in-one app and desktop platform designed to encourage individuals to socialize, maintain mental health, book appointments for covid-19 vaccinations/tests, and track medical symptoms on a daily basis.
With the Covi-track website and app, users can book a covid-19 vaccination/test appointment at their nearest hospital, from the safety of their own home. Covi-track implements the Google Maps cloud software, by allowing users to derive the nearest medical attention and determining which vaccine is available at that location. Hence, the process of booking covid-19 related appointments is made much more easier and efficient for the user.
Furthermore in the app version, the 2nd dose of the vaccination is automatically scheduled to minimize the possibility of user error. The app's notification system reminds the user of their upcoming appointments. Also, the app keeps track of the user's vaccine progress and encourages daily check-ins through simple questions which can be used to derive valuable insight on the user's health.
To improve mental health in quarantine, users can utilize the app to connect with other users who are also in quarantine and are looking for an opportunity to socialize. Through themed video group calls (that can be both created or joined), users can experience human interaction to reduce emotions of isolation and anxiety.
Through Covi-track's website, users are encouraged to name and track their symptoms. Upon tracking, user's are then urged to seek medical examination for covid-19 related symptoms. By doing so, Covi-track aims to swiftly identify and investigate medical cases suspected for covid-19 within our community.
All prototypes of the Covi-track app have been created using Figma.
The Covi-track website was constructed using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. The code was built using VS Code.
We also incorporated an Augmented Reality (AR) feature by using echoAR's software (please see link below).
With this being our first 24-hour hackathon, our team ran into some time-constraints early on, however, with strong communication and critical-thinking skills we were able to put together a decent platform for our Covi-track idea.
Despite the obstacles we faced, our team is proud of the fact that we managed to pull off creating both an app and website. We weren’t entirely sure if we would be able to create 2 different models in such a short time, so completing the entire project was very exciting.
More specifically we are also proud of our 'symptom tracker' on our webpage and our app's ability connect users to themed video calls with peers from their community.
Through this 24-hour hackathon, we surely learned valuable skills regarding UX/UI design as well as web development (i.e. JavaScript integration).
Aside from technical skills, our team also learned the importance of strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and critical-thinking skills. We also developed our time-management, organizing, planning skills - all of which we will surely build on in the future as well.
Our team did not get around to making the website compatible with all screen-sizes in the given timeframe, but in the near future we hope to update its sources using additional css features such as flex-box. Moreover, we hope to implement the sass framework on our css source file to minimize existing redundancies and make our webpages more easily modifiable in the future.
We also hope to implement a individual Google Maps API, to allow users to directly schedule appointments and view nearby medical locations from the Covi-track's app and website.
CoviTrack Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLtYY-8p5m8
echoAR Feature: https://console.echoar.xyz/webar?key=patient-lab-1584&entry=c3806c09-b64b-421b-93b1-b4931ae7c88d
App Prototype: https://www.figma.com/file/A7KwjcPryWPx8pGKLdG17p/CoviTrack?node-id=5%3A0
TOHacks 2021 Devpost Submission: https://devpost.com/software/covitrack-qkeisl