Asthma Amigo
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Overview
In the context of Australia, children under the age of 15 is an important demographic when it comes to suffering from asthma. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare - "In the first three years of life, 16.9% of Australian infants experience asthma or wheezing. Among non- asthmatic children between the ages of 4 to 5 years, 4.1% have shown to develop asthma by the seventh year of life."
Asthma Amigo is an iOS application that caters to the parents of the aforementioned demographic. The application lets parents track their kid's asthma via journaling (recording asthmatic events). A given journal entry intuitively packs together data related to the event such as location, temperature, air quality, asthma trigger etc. These entries can then be used for reference and to predict the possibility of similar conditions occuring in the future.
Features
- A digitized version of the official Asthma Action Plan.
- Timely notifications as dictated by Action Plan.
- Medicine reminders as dictated by Action Plan.
- Digital journaling to keep track of asthmatic events and to predict possibility of similar events in the future.
Process
Asthma Amigo was developed by a team of 5 students as part of their final year Capstone project. It was developed in three agile sprints while adhering to agile practices. I was responsible for:
- Developing a system for sending timely notifications based on a multitude of factors and user preferences.
- Developing a digital version of the asthma action plan prescribed by doctors.
- Developing the back-end system that persisted asthma attack records, medicine information and user preferences with Core Data and PLists.
- Integrating APIs such as Google Places, Dark Sky and Air Quality APIs with the app. Used Alamofire and SwiftyJSON for fetch requests.
- Ensuring quality of application by performing Usability Testing on potential users.
