RCOS S'13 - Presentation 3: UGRS

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1. Raymond Jacobson • Ethan Bond Austin Gulati • Nikhil Srinivasan • Damian Mastylo A web application that makes parenting easier
2. A STORY
3. A SPECIFIC PROBLEM Parents worry about developmental patterns of their infants and it’s not as easy as it should be to get information What’s out there to solve it? •  Baby Connect •  Parent Center •  The Doctor How they don’t do the problem justice •  Don’t provide parents with an easy way to interact with software •  Hard to put and get data •  It’s just not easy enough… and it needs to be
4. SOLVING IT Keep track of the baby’s milestones, events, measurements, statistics How do we get those statistics? •  Find something parents love to do and something they do regularly •  Blogging Integrate that with a simple, effective data-driven feedback mechanism
5. HOW WE DO IT •  Simple and intuitive user interface •  Making it easy with blogging/creating posts •  Accurate comparisons to standards •  CDC •  NIH •  Tied together with powerful natural language processing •  Concise Visual feedback •  Colors
6. UI/UX HTML/CSS/SASS/JavaScript/jQuery/CoffeeScript
7. UI/UX
8. BACKEND Ruby on Rails Objective C/iOS Development Java/Android SDK
9. LOOKING FORWARD •  Improving parent-doctor relationships •  Big data and keeping a large supply of tangible information •  Learning from that data •  Understanding development at a larger level •  Babynotes is more than just babies •  It’s personal healthcare as a whole •  It’s development as a whole
10. THANKS •  Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software •  Mukkai Krishnamoorthy •  David Goldschmidt •  Undergraduate Research Symposium Fork our code: github.com/rcos-babynotes/babynotes Read our blog: babynotes.herokuapp.com