Application Prototype Development Project
During my final semester at Temple, I took part of a team on the creation of a prototype for a mobile application. The project was for the class MIS 4596 in Fall 2014 taught by Bruce Hohne. The team members were: Mathew Cotton, Kira Greenlee, Mahfuz Hassan, Veer Patel, and Jerrin Raju. My team designed a mobile app to both help prevent diabetes, as well as manage diabetes in current patients, called HealthFit Pro.
HealthFit Pro is a lifestyle application that enables diabetic and non-diabetic users to take control of their health by monitoring their diet, exercise and glucose readings. The app incorporates the ability to research nutritional values of food, use wearable technology to record exercise or manually input your fitness progress and submit your daily glucose reading. The latter part is omitted for non-diabetic users. Health initiatives are important in the workplace to increase productivity and keep insurance costs low. Designed with doctors and nurses; the application works with employers and insurance companies to reward users who are able to maintain a healthy lifestyle. A pre-determined algorithm will score the user based on their inputs in these three areas and the score will be sent to insurance companies who are then able to work with employers on discounted insurance premiums. Directed readings and tips will also be provided to users based on their scores in certain areas to help aid in and motivate a healthier lifestyle.
This three and a half month long project taught me some very valuable skills that will help me excel in my future career. It was one of the largest projects that I have completed throughout my whole schooling career. Due to this, I learned important time management and organizational skills to help keep the project and team on track. The project was fairly open ended and required the team and I to be creative while not losing focus of the end goal of a profitable idea for an application. I learned useful business analyst skills while acquiring objectives and requirements for the prototype. I also learned many project management skills such as developing project documents (Business model, project charter, project plan), teamwork, and scheduling.
Here is a link to a site I made mapping out the project in greater detail.