Findie – Public service to manage dementia patients

Findie is a service that helps find missing dementia patients, the number of whom increases annually. The app uses cooperative machine learning algorithms and public inputs. When a dementia patient goes missing, Findie estimates the location of the patient and immediately warns nearby users so that the patient can be quickly found. Findie also provides educational content to increase public awareness and understanding of dementia. Findie is a platform to create connections between patients, guardians, and public and government officials to efficiently help each other. The app also includes a reward system to raise user engagement.

Findie는 매년 증가하는 실종 치매 환자를 찾는 서비스다. 이 앱은 협력적인 기계 학습 알고리즘과 일반 참여자들의 정보 입력을 활용하며, 치매 환자가 실종될 경우 환자의 위치를 추정하여 즉시 주변 이용자에게 알려 환자를 빠른 시간 안에 찾을 수 있게 돕는다. Findie는 치매에 대한 대중의 인식과 이해를 높이기 위한 교육 콘텐츠도 제공한다. 환자와 보호자, 공무원이 연결되어 서로를 효율적으로 돕는 플랫폼 역할을 한다. 앱은 사용자 참여를 높이는 보상 시스템도 포함한다.

Idea

Registered dementia patients by the guardian will be monitored by nearby Findies and experts in the local community. Findie encourages public participation and Findie smart location estimation algorithms with various inputs will help to find the patients in time.

Form

Simple and intuitive interfaces of Findie are suitable even in an urgent situation. Carried out by an empathy-driven design process, Findie user experience, and the interface is carried out to balance between wide age groups and to cover various contexts.

Function

Findie patient’s registration process will encourage users to log useful inputs such as locations of normal outings and daily routines. Then Findie will create a patient’s heat map. Smart and intuitive reports and a group chat system in case of an accident are also key features.

Differentiation

Findie is useful even without location trackers or ID tags. Findie predicts the patient’s expected activity and location through ML and AI, then encourage the public to participate in the finding. It simplifies the process to enhance the efficiency of limited resources.

Impact

Findie helps dementia patients and family members with advanced technology, enhanced connections, and local community participation. Findie tries to create new solutions for dealing with difficult social agendas through design-driven thinking and methods.