 My name is Vasu Janopoulos, my pronouns are she, her and I'm the Acting Deputy Director of Education at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. I'm delighted to welcome you to the 2021 National High School Design Competition Judging. Now in its sixth year, we challenge teens around the country to design a healthier world for all, taking on an opportunity that so many designers and non-designers alike have been working toward achieving, particularly over this past year. So many aspects of our world are being redesigned, and we'll see how our finalists have responded today. I'm absolutely thrilled to welcome this year's finalists, the team of Paulina Casaros and Alexis Nicolo, graduating seniors at Design and Architecture Senior High, Miami, Florida. Alison Casey, a rising sophomore at La Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla, California. And the team of Aditya, a rising senior at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. Nidhi Malpani, a rising senior at Westwood High School in Austin, Texas. And Yasmina Moradova, a rising senior at the Gatton Academy in Bowling Green, Kentucky. First and foremost, a big round of a virtual applause to the finalists. Their three entries were selected from 815 remarkable designs from across the country, submitted by over 1,100 students. It is with enormous thanks to Shelby and Frederick Gantz for their generous support in helping to make this competition possible. Before we get started with the presentations, I'd like to invite our fabulous judges to introduce themselves. We'll start with Ruki. Hi, everyone. I'm so pleased to be here. I'm Ruki Newhold Ravekumar. My pronouns are she, her. I'm the interim director of Cooper Hewitt's Smithsonian Design Museum. We have over 215,000 design objects in our collection spanning 30 centuries. It's the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. I joined the Smithsonian family as the director of education at Cooper Hewitt. But for the past 18 months, I've also served as Smithsonian's acting undersecretary for education and trained as a designer. And I draw from my international experiences as a designer and educator to inform a human-centered approach to reimagining education at the Smithsonian. Thanks so much for having me here. Curry. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Curry Hackett. I am a transdisciplinary designer, public artist, and educator in design. I have a practice in DC called Wayside Studio where I collaborate with communities and municipalities to engage matters pertaining to culture, infrastructure, ecology. Most of that work is in the public realm. I also teach architecture at my alma mater, Howard University. And I am a core organizer of Dark Matter University, which is an anti-racist design justice academic institution. I'm going to be here. I'll kick it to Josh. Hello. I am Joshua Halstead, pronouns are key there. I am phoning in from the unceded lands of the Aloni people in San Francisco, California. And I'm an assistant professor at Art Center College of Design where I look at the politics of disability, access, and interaction in the environmental design. I'm also an instructor at Berkeley Extension where I teach accessibility and graphic design. And I'm affiliated with the Critical Design Lab, which is founded in Vanderbilt University by Amy Hamurai, where we look at anti-abelism, anti-sanism, anti-racism, those intersections with speculative and critical design. So, you know, that being said, all that has to do with health, and I'm just very honored to be here today. I'm going to pop it over to Sami. Hi, everybody. Sami Kim. I'm based in New York City at Johnson and Johnson Design, where we are focused on health and well-being for everybody around the world, looking at how to apply the design lens to understand how human values and human experiences can lead to better outcomes. And I look forward to hearing from all of you. I will pass it to Morgan. Hi, my name is Morgan Hutchinson. I'm an emergency doctor in Philadelphia at Thomas Jefferson University. I work at my hospital in a research group called the Health Design Lab, where we teach medical students concepts of design thinking and incorporate those into their medical school education. We also run many community-serving programs. Right now I'm the medical director of both Jefferson's COVID testing and COVID vaccine programs. I'm very excited to be here. I loved all of the finalist projects and really enjoyed looking through the honorable mentions, too. Thank you. Thank you so much to all of our judges. At this time, I'd love to introduce you all to Alexis and Paulina and welcome them for their presentation. Hello, everyone. I'm Paulina Casadis. My pronouns are she, her, hers. I'm Alexis. My pronouns are she, her, hers. And today we will be presenting to you our design public care pod. So before we get started, just a little background of who we are. Alexis and I both recently graduated from Design and Architecture Senior High, where we have studied architecture for the past three years. I will be attending Wellesley College while we study architecture. And I'll be attending Florida International University while I'll be studying interior architecture. So this past year, we have seen how important health is for everyone, maintaining a healthy lifestyle is fundamental for our mental and social well-being. It is important to stay healthy to overcome difficulties in life, as well as preventing long-term illnesses. When we place communities at the heart of the public health, communities can engage to prevent more health inequalities and to create a more cohesive environment. And so the main challenge that we see is that many are facing barriers that either prevent or limit their access to medical needs or healthcare. And after doing some research, we found that many people around the world can't really afford a medical services, and the lack of transportation or leading patients to reschedule or miss their appointments and therefore postponing their care. We actually ran a very quick survey in our own small community and found that 77.8% of our friends and family members have canceled or missed a medical appointment in the last year. Not only is this problem seen in the US, but also in second-world countries and low-income communities. We wanted our designs to be available for those who don't have the same medical access as others around the world. And we thought, how can we expand our design not just to be for a certain population, but for everyone in different neighborhoods and environments around the world? And because of these everyday cancellations, there is around a $3 million in lost revenue each year. And to sort of fight off this problem, we are making the care pod to be government-funded, offering free consultations for everyone. At the very beginning, we did research on possible problems surrounding COVID-19. We broke down three of them into mental health, social distancing, and medical pods that would accommodate to COVID-19 guidelines. On the left, you can see our research images that inspired our designs. And to the right at the very top, we have a restaurant cubicle, which we designed to create a safe environment while at social distancing. In the middle, it is designed for mental health, where we created cubicles where people can talk to each other yet still be safe. And at the bottom is our design where we explore different shapes to be used as a medical pod. In the end, we decided to choose our last design or medical pod, but we kept elements from the three previous concepts, such as the colorful glass, the modular design, and the seating. The essential idea of the care pod is to provide services without the need of traveling long distances to a hospital, and it uses an interactive digital screen that displays a virtual doctor and medical assistant. We decided on a virtual doctor instead of a physical one, since it is easier to access and doctors can contact the patients at any time. Here in the final design, you can see a full and section axonometric view of the care pod. Then you see the different elevations in sections and how we developed both the interior and exterior structure. To the right, you can see three different screens that will display the medical doctors. And so before you experience the care pod, you may either receive a brochure through physical or electrical mail, depending on the one available to you. Since many don't have electronic devices or access to Wi-Fi, a physical brochure is handed out to them, so they also receive the same service. As you see here on the right, the phone is displaying the electronic brochure, where you would be able to locate the nearest pod and the type of consultation you want to have. And based on where you are located, we thought of various colors and materials that will complement the environment. We intend to use local and recycled material. Our care pods will be designed based on community, culture, and weather, and offer different languages for the patients. And so based on the location, the care pods can be stationed in different configurations. This sort of allows for easy coming-go consultations and people won't really have to worry about waiting in line, like how one normally does at a hospital or at a regular doctor's appointment. The care pod would work in a pop-up system located in your populated areas, as well as low-income communities. Once we arrive at the care pod, they would walk in through the automatic door and the disinfecting agents to prevent any contaminations. Before we talk about what is inside, we want to show you the digital model we created of our design. The care pod's simple shape allows for a comfortable space for the user. In order for the care pod to generate power, we implemented solar panels. This sort of adds to the sustainable aspect of our design, which is very important to both the user and the environment, and it is also cost-efficient. To make the design a bit more bright and enjoyable for the patient, windows and colorful glass were added to the pod. We specifically placed them around the top of the part of the wall so the patient inside can look outside, yet keeping it private enough. The door itself also uses a smart glass technology, which can go opaque once the user is inside to provide more privacy. As for the logo, like we mentioned before, we wanted our design to be placed at the heart of the community. Our logo shows two people in a heart-like shape embracing each other, with the title care pod in the center. This emphasizes how important healthcare is for everyone. And so during the experience, here you can see the patient inside, interacting with the digital screen that is controlled by voice and hand movements. The camera is located at the top of the screen, which is how the doctor is able to see you. And when it comes to virtual consultations, patient privacy and safety are the top priority. And this is why we are partnering with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which is a very popular and better secured platform used by physicians to do the virtual consultations due to its security and convenience. As for the interior design, we included seating around the sides in a connected table where you would find a device to take your vital signs. The interior is spacious enough for a wheelchair and it is disability-friendly. Here are the devices that one would use to take the vital signs. The care pod provides an oxygen-level monitor, a blood pressure monitor, and a touchless thermometer. Here is a close-up of the inside with the patient interacting with the doctor on the screen. Your medical chart and other infographics will be shown here to help you with your consultation. The images could be of one asking how you're feeling from with 10. It could display the medicine that you are taking or just overall your medical records. We would have three main options for consultation when we arrive at the care pod. There's a regular medical consultation, a COVID-19, and a mental health. Other than the doctor, there would be a medical assistant that would guide you through the process of how to use the screen. Since the care pod would work in a global system, you can choose different doctors from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities to assist you. The main features included in the care pod are the disinfecting agent, the UV light, inclusive design, automatic sliding doors, solar panels, colorful glass, and devices to take vital signs. The UV light also has another function. Since the care pod is available 24-7, some may want to stay longer inside of it for their own pleasure. However, in order for this to not happen, once the consultation with the doctor's over, you have a certain amount of time before the bright UV light turns on and shines the interior pod to disinfect it. The door will also automatically open until the patient's would, in a way, be forced to leave, ultimately keeping the patients going in and out without causing any problems or delays. And regarding inclusive design, the seating next to the table with the devices to take your vital signs opens up for easier access to those who are on a wheelchair. Once the patient is done with their consultation, you may need to follow some post-visit steps, like if you need a post-checkup, a more detailed test or lab done, or if there's any medication that you need to pick up from a nearby pharmacy. The benefit of a virtual medical assistant is that it increases access to healthcare, reduces costs, improves healthcare outcomes, fewer in-person consultations. Doctors are available 24-7 in a safe time. We really wanted to focus on the impact of our design, and with the survey that we did before, we asked our friends and family members which feature included in the pod was the most impactful for them, and 40% said the disinfecting agent. We had lots of positive feedback and many feel happier and safer with this design because of how it will influence others to get checked up more and provide more service for everyone. So in this interior rendering, you can see the patient in action interacting with the virtual doctor. You wanted to emphasize the pamphlets that you would get once your consultation is over. This medical information handout promotes various medical services offered and includes infographics and medical about medical consultations, mental health concerns, COVID-19 related topics, post-visit steps, as well as contact information. This pamphlet is a very vital part of this design since it keeps patients up to date with modern healthcare trends. Since our care pod has opened 24-7, you want to show you a depiction of how it will look at night time. And here we have an artistic final rendering of how the care pods will look like in this configuration and how it interacts with the environment. Even post-COVID, these carepods can be vital resource for undeserved communities to receive healthcare. Moreover, the care pod can build on site anywhere around the world in state locations for extended periods of time to provide care for the entire community. The brochure is geared towards a segment of the world's population that can access an electronic device and for those who don't, the physical brochure will come in handy. Overall, we really want our design to provide the best service for everyone, ultimately creating a healthier world. Thank you and now we're open for questions. Thank you. Hi, first of all, this is a great presentation. Thank you so much. I just was wondering if you could explain a bit about the disinfecting agents because what we've seen a lot of is that that's often done manually with a lot of human beings actually providing that service in public spaces. Yes, so once the patient first goes inside of the pod, there is a disinfecting agent that will spray so it contaminates you and as well as when you go out of the pod, it will spray again. And once the pod is completely empty on the inside, the UV lights will shine very brightly and that will ultimately disinfect the whole interior. The pod also has a UV light that disinfects the interior once it's empty. I had some questions also about that. I think it's an interesting concept for sure and I think this is something that could be very impactful, especially in vulnerable communities and in other countries and places that have limited access to healthcare or specialized healthcare. You mentioned in terms of getting patients signed up, getting patients aware of this, that it would be either electronic or by brochures. I've found that a lot of times that can be it can be tough to limit the marketing to sort of non-indirect contacts like that. And so I wonder how you guys would engage community partners or others locally to help let patients know that this is available and help get the patients that are most in need the service. Yes, so apart from the brochure that we would offer physically or you know by mail or electronically we would also use like word of mouth if there's other patients that you know are you know using this product like the the pod then we will be able to have those patients tell others and you know spread the word of the pod, the care pod. The brochure physically are going to be emailed based on your location. I have a question, a really delightful presentation and really sort of blown away by the level of clarity and sort of resolution, the sort of comprehensiveness I think of your proposal. And I was really struck by the way that you're framing health around this idea of care. I think that's something that's like super timely and important. When I when we get to the, I'm teaching architecture right so I feel like I'm a bit of a review. So when we get to the actual pod I think that's a fascinating sort of proposal. But what I kept wondering is can this operate in areas that are already sort of substrates for care or areas of care, touch points for care. So whether that's a barbershop or a coffee shop right places where people there's there's social networks that are already in place. And so I'm wondering can the heavy did you all give any thought to the ways that you can provide the services that maybe are not packaged so neatly into this pod. Does that make sense. I'm slightly confused but can you repeat the question. Sorry sorry yeah I'm I'm I'm wondering if if the if it needs to be a pod right a proper pod that's packaged so neatly and well behaved right is there a way that you could maybe take the say the the services that you're providing on the inside did you give any thought to where else in the community they might be able to exist. I mean our main purpose for the pods were for it to be very moderate and easy to like move around places so to be located in like either populated areas so like around malls hospital and well not hospital but like malls airports you know very populated places or you know locate income communities. But we haven't really thought about it but for our next iteration of our design we could definitely think about that thank you. I think that could be a great 2.0 so imagine that you had to get something set up very quickly and you didn't have time to ship a pod or however it was going to be installed so finding where are people already congregating and what's the minimum viable technology that is needed to then enable this kind of telehealth. Thank you yeah and also our pods are using like recycled and local materials so it's easier to build based on the location that it you know offers service for. I want to go ahead. No please go ahead. Well that was a fantastic presentation. I'm glad I already have a job. If this is what the next generation is doing bring in oh my goodness gracious this is fantastic thank you so much for organizing your thoughts presenting it in a kind of logical manner. I feel like I understood it and I didn't have to reach too hard sorry there were flies attacking my lunch right now. My question is around what is it around? Did you consider so what I'm seeing right now is like this idea of a pod and it kind of is put into the community. Did you consider how to engage the community itself and kind of designing the pod what it looks like where it's placed what happens to it after you know the purpose changes and that kind of longer time horizon for you know placement and then use after it. Yeah so go ahead Poina. Okay very quickly but just we at first had this idea of the care pod to be focused on you know COVID times but essentially like this pod could benefit for the future years for any time not just for COVID times but it could work for mental health like psychologists or you know like mental health meetings regular consultations very quick consultations so we're not really focusing on like a certain time period so you know COVID-19 but for the future years. And the functionality of the care pod is based on the environment and location. Okay wonderful thank you both. Thank you. I think that a lot of us are kind of getting at a similar thought which is that you know having a healthcare service exist in a community that is accessible to the public but doesn't have any human resources on site is extremely challenging the architectural design which is not my specialty so I'm just in awe of anyone who can do that including pretty much everyone on this call is incredible and one way of not having a staff member from this the pod be on site as the person operating this is to really engage leaders in the community you know schools churches barbershops are awesome grocery stores somebody who wants this to exist at their in their space and I think that would be a really cool next step. Thank you. I had a question about people who are visually impaired so a lot of the the features the colored glass and even having the the screen and interacting with a healthcare provider visually how might you accommodate somebody who isn't able to see or somebody who perhaps can only you know in terms of their cognitive diversity isn't really able to be in an enclosed space. Right as for users who need you know voice assistance like the part like the screen itself functions both with hand movements touch and voice voice you know yeah by voice and so the medical assistant there will help you guide yourself through the whole call from the start to the end um yeah in the sense of someone who can't really stay inside of a closed space we haven't thought about that but definitely think about it for the second iteration 2.0 of the care product. I love that you're thinking about 2.0 and second iteration I want to echo a lot of the other judges the presentation was really well done very professional very thorough the renderings were really nice it gave us a good sense of what the idea was to me if you could answer a couple questions it sounds like a lot of what you're tackling and I admire that you're tackling the problem of access access to healthcare but it sounds like the pod does a great job of looking at the front end of it so the consult and the diagnosis part could you tell us maybe what your idea is for the actual care part how does the person then access medication after care did you think about it as a system or are you mostly focused on the front end of the problem um so far we're mostly focused on the front end of the problem but um we have touched on the whole like after process after using the care pod if you have any medication the care pod would how do I say it like prescribe it and then you would go to the nearest pharmacy to pick it up and if anything the care pod would also provide and cover the cost of the medication the device in the care pod anything we can do virtually on here the care pod can do so the patients would have to physically pick up the medication one thing that I think would be really cool to incorporate in this that you have already sort of have the structure for with everything that you described would be to include community health workers in in this process so we think about you know needing doctors and nurses as part of what people need in healthcare but a lot of times that's really not what is needed or that's not everything that is needed at the covid testing and vaccine sites that I run we include community health workers on site who also follow up with patients by phone assess the needs of each individual patient which I think could help with some of the you know variable needs of different members of the community whether it's you know physical disabilities or need to access medication or financial issues or home issues um a lot of these are non-medical but uh a consult with a community health worker I think would be an incredible um thing to add to this process thank you one more thing I'll say if we have time uh quickly is is is um these things don't necessarily have to be kind of fixed or like permanent right so a lot of times in architecture we think of the architecture as this kind of a permanent thing um that sort of stays the same uh forever um but oftentimes people tend to use buildings and and objects in ways that they the designer didn't intend right so um I I am wondering um how these pods I shouldn't refer to them as things are very sophisticated um uh these pods might sort of invite themselves to be hacked uh or dismantled or modified by the community right um so it's not just the sort of fixed uh sort of again like kind of packaged thing pod excuse me um is it something that can that can change over time and what does that look like that was more sort of a rhetorical question but I'd love to see a two or three point out as for that question um our pods like we it's not specifically how do I say permanent in the location it's rather more of like a pop-up so it could change in say like in six months or like a year and we also have this idea that um after six months they would replace all the pods um to maintain that sort of cleanliness and like like for the how do I say it to make sure that it's like maintain in a good you know state the pod thank you so much to Paulina and Alexis it's my pleasure now to welcome Allison okay if you can see that then I think we are good so this is my presentation on my project the pop shop good afternoon my name is Allison Casey and I'm 14 years old my pronouns are she her and I just finished ninth grade at La Jolla country day school in San Diego California racial and socioeconomic disparities have been an issue forever especially in medicine and now with covid we are seeing this in a whole new light one of the many examples out there was death of the black doctor Susan Moore back in December she among other african-americans was more susceptible to the virus because they suffer from high rates of diabetes and asthma these are all physical problems but our society is no less to blame for her and other people of colors deaths due to covid they are disproportionately vulnerable because of systemic racism and equity in health care access and unequal economic opportunities the john hopkins school medicine stated the coronavirus pandemic has decimated communities of color which are overrepresented in the front line essential jobs and vulnerable to risk factors that can make covid 19 worse this was an article regarding the race gaps in covid and covid deaths and showed that for healthy americans the ratio of black and hispanic to white deaths was 10 to 1 and 8 to 1 shown with data from the keiser family foundation here you can see the inequality in three of the most notable spots in our country in vaccinations compared to people of colors shares of cases deaths and their total populations in that place and so here is my solution this is the pop shot it is a state government funded vaccine truck that brings covid resources to people who need it instead of having them go and get it out themselves it would partner with local communities in order to create a healthier world by vaccinating the people there and specifically hesitant people and children now that we are moving towards a more everyone else's vaccinated type of situation so now this is a user scenario story of how someone would use this program so this is the family i'm using this is james and bonnie and they live with their son john and their 13-year-old granddaughter ava and two other children and all three of the adults work multiple jobs to support their families so they haven't had time in their schedules to get vaccinated and this is where my program would help so to inform the local communities of a upcoming pop shot mail would be sent to the people there by the government and they would be able to have flyers inside of them that have information about the upcoming pop shot inside of them so this is a closer look it will have english on one side and the most common language or languages on the other side my program will be multi-lingual to ensure that everyone feels comfortable and understands which is crucial for the run smoothly then in the middle it will have the dates and times it will be open the pop-up will be open for at least a week and be open early in the mornings and late at night so that people in so the people that work have as much accessibility and don't have to take time that could be really valuable for their families off from their jobs there will be also lots of local advertisements in the forms of billboards or in common places such as bus stops to make sure that everyone is informed about the pop-up in the local area word of mouth will also be a very helpful type of advertisement because many of these communities are close to each other and talk a lot so here bonnie and james are talking with two other people in the neighborhood maria and earl so maria doesn't speak great english and so she didn't know how to get her vaccine and bonnie was able to give her the flyer that has all the information in the language that maria speaks so she can understand more and knows that she can go to the pop-up to get her vaccine and as for earl he believes that the vaccine could hurt him so he doesn't want to get it and james couldn't convince him to get it just by talking to him but he did get earl to at least come check it out when he brings ava to get her vaccine so this is what the first section of the pop shot would look like this would be the administrative section where people would fill out their paperwork and they would wait before they get their vaccine and here you can see maria she's ready to get her vaccine but there is a line because it will be almost all walk-ups so that everyone gets a fair turn and she doesn't want to wait too long and likely for her she's able to fill out the paperwork ahead of time like right now and then just come back a little bit later and go straight to the front of the line so she can use her time more effectively and so she decides she wanted to do that so she's going to go home and so the staff will be easily identifiable because they have to wear a badge with their information so the community can see their credentials and trust the staff because that is extremely important most of the staff will be made up of med and nursing students supervised by long-term doctors nurse practitioners and other nurses then there will also be administrative staff which will be people from the local communities who can help build that community bond between the patients and the people at the pop shot and this is the second part of the pop shot where the vaccinations would take place here's ava with james and url and she's about to get her shot so there will be little sections like little dividers and everything so everyone is completely private from everyone else and you don't have to watch everyone else get their shots and she will have to come back for her second vaccine in a few weeks because she's not old enough for the johnson and johnson which my track would be provide because then you don't have to fit a second shot into their schedules so there will be johnson and johnson and fizer because some people are more comfortable with the fizer vaccine and would be okay with coming back again so i think it's just more a personal preference but if you're a child then obviously you have to get the fizer vaccine and this is the last part it's more fun it's supposed to be very much more comfortable and not threatening to people so this is where they would get their ice cream and just hang out there 15 minutes and the community can just sort of hang out together and it'll be much more of a relaxed situation so here the people they're just kind of hanging there's fun seating there's little fun games and she can go and get her ice cream from the truck so i came up with this idea for this project with my mom and then i was able to draw from my grandmother's experience with her vaccine to see what important features my program could have that would have made her life easier so she doesn't speak great english so she struggles to understand the whole concept of covid in general and she doesn't know technology very well so she couldn't even schedule her own vaccine my mom had to schedule it for her and then also something really hard for her was navigating a new location so she actually had to bring friends with her to the super site so they could help her translate and know where she had to go because she couldn't do it herself and she also lives really far so none of us none of my family members could help her out there so these issues were very good for me to know because she's definitely not the only person with the same issues so they were really important that they were addressed in my program and she said that this would have benefited her because she knows the neighborhood well she understands the language it would have been speaking in and it would be much more simple all around for her now this is my extremely low tech model i was originally going to paint it and add my designs physically but that did not work out for me so i did it digitally and it's far from perfect but i think the basic ideas there showing what it might look like in real life and so i just started designing this in february when vaccines were not as open as they are today so throughout the redesign months my design had to change with the changing times but it made me rethink a couple ideas in my design and i think it has really grown since i first started it these are my two original sketches and so they are very much more simple they don't they're much more big picture than anything that i have now so there's like this one has a website it has a truck it has a little station where you register and then you get your vaccine it's very similar in my first submission sketch but here is my actual final sketch right now and it focuses a lot more on details which i really liked doing it had a lot more little nuanced ideas and so like the music the games and like this billboard instead of just like a floating poster it all connects a lot more so i think it was a lot more detail oriented in my final design and now as we are approaching the post-covid world fairly soon i envision that other vaccines and vaccines for the like little kids who haven't been in want to get their COVID vaccines yet would be the main use of my program so my design can be used as like a mobile flu shot vaccine site that provides free shots and brings it all to them so they don't have to schedule it go out of their way to get the flu shot which is also good that they can educate people in the neighborhoods in order to get their vaccines and not be scared of it and also a couple other things that my track could carry would be the tetanus shot HPV shot shingles vaccine pneumonia vaccine things like that that people often need but do not have very good access to thank you so much and i am now open for any questions or feedback thank you so much allison really great presentation i love the way that you built out scenarios to show what would happen for for the people who would benefit from this idea and i wondered if you had thought about what potential public and private partnerships might might be for example automotive or transportation companies maybe getting involved thinking about that back of house piece not just the the consumers and patients but how would this actually work in terms of actually mobilizing and getting different partners involved uh so i think for like the doctors and the students and everyone that is running it it would mostly be from like the medical universities who'd partner with the local ones and local community clinics in order to get the doctors and nurses for that and then also with the local companies businesses for making partnership with them so that they can also have it like we could do the pop-up in their facilities like at a local church or something because those will also help the community trust aspect of it you're actually just an operation that is almost exactly what i do so it's really cool to hear from your perspective because it's you've hit a lot of really important points that i think overlooked a lot in terms of language accessibility and outreach to people who are you know nervous to get to sites not only to get the vaccine but also um whether the site will be accessible to them whether they'll speak a language whether they can get the appointment whether they can move through the site comfortably based on various different obstacles um so it was really cool to hear your presentation and i wish i met you back in February but um but it's it's happening now and that's um it's cool to see this i for for a long time i was actually thinking about an ice cream truck as a really good option for for the community like um mobile aspect because you have a cooler you can call the vaccine we actually worked with forward to um their innovation group and they've uh rented us or leased us a couple of vehicles that are similar looking to ice cream trucks they have um uh they have refrigerators on the truck and storage for everything that you might need we're working with students and volunteers and interpreters um but my number one question was exactly what uh saw me just said which is how would you engage community partners and i think that um was my question for the prior group to and such an important part of any of these programs being successful is um i think that i've personally been really happy to see so much interest from community groups in supporting these operations and i think that having those connections in terms of outreach to to bring people to the site and also um finding locations that are supportive of the operation are really important so um i'd love to hear um your thoughts on that too uh sorry just to clarify was your question just like uh what what partners i would use or like yeah like how would you how would you envision um working together with community partners both to set up a potential location for one of your sites and also to reach out into a community to let people know about this service um so i think definitely places that people congregate a lot so like once little kids are getting um vaccinated i think like local daycares centers and preschools and like ymca centers things like that and just for everyone churches are very common places like religious temples everything where people are at a lot and that's very much a community space so places like that and then if we partnered with them they would be able to also tell people in their communities that this will be happening and would also be able to help them trust that no one's going to be hurt and it's not going to like be anything bad that happens to them if they go out and go to the pop shop hey allison hi um so i thought this is a fantastic project um i have a quick story for you but before i do that i just before i forget i'm so happy that you're thinking about religious spaces as community spaces i think often it's uh it's kind of uh even in design justice uh conversations we don't we tend to underestimate religious spaces as community spaces um so i appreciate that you're doing that um so thank you you got chops um so my my quick my quick story is that when i when i was your age i went uh to art center um to apply for their saturday high program and i had a portfolio and then this portfolio was a bmw advertisement that looked like a like a beetles um cover and the person who was assessing is kit barron i still remember gave me a look that pretty much said what the heck are you doing right um you know the bmw would never go for this right and why it's because i mean i i was i was a designer and i was putting what i wanted on the page without thinking about the customer without thinking about the people who are buying the mws etc right so i loved that you said that you were working with your mom and you're working with your grandma right and from that emerged this this project right so you're you're getting what i'd never got at your age which is that you know when you create things with people really closely um the designs that you make are radically different right i mean they can land you in a national designed uh competition as a finalist right so um as you continue your practice and even if you continue developing this i would encourage you to just keep talking to people right because the insights that you've delivered here um are testament to that i don't have to ask if you've been talking to people because they are they're rooted in community so i just wanted to you know applaud you on that and encourage you to keep going that direction because it's going to pay off already is paying off you yeah alice and i echo josh i really loved the story you told where you looked at how it impacts uh an intergenerational audience and you looked at it not just as the the process of vaccination itself but afterwards where the community could hang out and you're really using that ice cream truck as a way for to reduce fear fear in people and that's probably one of the biggest challenges i think with with the vaccine is there's a lot of fear around what will what will it be like what it'll be like after and so you tackle the really complex problem there i just wonder about opportunities for education as well because it seemed like part of your solution was education was more of a printed pamphlet but the rest of your solution is so interactive and so conversational i wonder if you could think about that education piece also taking on the more conversational community-based approach so that's if you have thoughts great but that would be my my suggestion for you as you continually evolve this okay yeah i kind of i didn't really reference it that much but i kind of assumed it would mostly be since it is like licensed professionals i think they might be able to help explain it to people there would be information out there that they could help like visually explain how this isn't going to hurt them the side effects are this this and this it's not going to like microchip you you know so just having those people that they can trust telling them there's nothing wrong with it it is completely safe to get would be an education point i think i also i just appreciate the really really really cool proposal i love that you're thinking about not necessarily just the the point of contact the point of access but you're also kind of thinking and really inviting a kind of milieu of things to happen around the point of access but i think it's so fascinating and i'm looking at your your drawing your vignettes and you know i would i can imagine myself being there which i think is really cool i actually grew up in world within it's a small town actually called farmville and so one of my memories growing up was the the swan truck s s c h w a and then i think it's like a food vendor they also would sell like ice cream and so like there wasn't an ice like the sort of suburban slash urban experience of hearing the like ice cream truck jingle around the corner is not really a thing that i grew up with there was a subscription based service where like people would actually you know order frozen foods and so i could see similarly i could see this sort of format being really successful and in less dense areas that being said i wonder what other services right like thinking of it not necessarily is just a mobile vaccine truck is this just a format of deploying resources right so less dense communities so to to ricky's point like you know is there is this can this be a mobile library like is there can this also be a means of addressing food insecurity right there's i think that there's a whole sort of i think you could widen the scope of of your project right and so maybe it's not it would be interesting to see what else can kind of become what would become of that of that exercise yeah i haven't really thought about sorry i hadn't really thought about what it would be besides like health-based but i was thinking like especially for rural spots that don't have like a close clinic or anything being able to do checkups and give people other health resources like um just for wellness like having Advil and other like over-the-counter meds so they don't have to go really far and just to get them when we have them really close by and also like contraceptives or anything like Narcan just things that a lot of people don't have access to that could help people if they need it but i hadn't really thought about the other aspects and i think those are really a cool ideas yeah i think it also i think it really just boils down to um continuing to like interrogate and widen your how you're thinking about health right so maybe it's not just the sort of purely commercial approach to health but like what good is a vaccine or what good is Advil if i'm starving to death right so like i think thinking about all all of those ways that health can be addressed would be using your truck as a format would be really fascinating yeah i really like that thank you very that's that's a great point and i could imagine the truck being a kind of a nexus of a lot of different community activities so you could have a farmers market that would show up or other types of services because there are so many inter intersecting issues when it comes to health and also chronic diseases as well as other infectious diseases beyond COVID have suffered during the pandemic and so how might we help to build back compliance and engagement with other issues so that we can make communities more more healthy yeah um i think people like my mom is a chronic illness psychologist so she works with people like that so i don't really know too much about the issue but they've definitely had it harder hit for them because it's really hard for them to get their medications to connect with people see their family members so i think just having the ability to get some human connections even if it's through like this truck or something and being able to get a little bit of health information from this truck i think could be really a positive thing for them to have i think it's interesting to think about both the the incentives and how to create joy and comfort in this space by giving out a three room or pop but also to think about other services that you can give or other services that you can help connect these patients to um at these sites that patients need not not just things that make them you know happier to get the vaccine and i think you know for example at our sites we give we've had sites where we gave out free tacos we're going to be giving out free affiliates tickets next week so things that make people excited to get the vaccine that make them feel um that they're at a service that is created for them to make them happy but also we give out grocery bags and we do like i was saying before community health workers are super helpful in any of these operations to assess patients on an individual basis and think about what they actually need connecting them with um you know helping them get keep their utilities on in their house helping them pay their rent get on unemployment um connecting with other other services that exist in the community and then from like a bigger perspective i think connecting with local food banks and connecting with local community organizations a lot of times when we think about doing these pop-up events in the community whether it's you know um a COVID vaccine clinic or other health screening or something non-related to health or food distribution it's really helpful to work together because we're both thinking about the same um same communities same patients that need our help in thinking about you know getting them what they need so it's been really helpful to work together with other community groups like that yeah listen i wanted to offer one more thing before we take off um so i mean i i i wonder as you continue i would love also to see you know what what does it mean for you as you are right now um to invite yourself to the table on this design project you know like what as as you know someone um in your specific location at your specific age with your specific lived experience right um what does that mean for what you include in this design you know i think so often um the designers uh strive uh you know and the active striving means that you're going as broadly as you can and trying to create a universal quote unquote solution and what often happens is that it falls short right and i can understand if you're a design you know if you're a larger entity like johnson and johnson for example you have no choice but to think of very broadly um but as an individual designer right what you can do is bring in your lived experience right so just like you talk to your mom and your grandma um and you're talking about your mom also having experience with folks with chronic illnesses you know what would it mean for you to really invite yourself to the table on this design and include all of your lived experience in your consideration because you're a key stakeholder in this right so anyways really a nice job i just want more Allison i just had one one last thought as well which is that if you're um taking this this health delivery system into communities how might you also contribute to employee employment opportunities and so thinking about how to upskill local community members and um and even students who might consider community health as a career possibility so there could be an interesting way to also engage with the community to deliver um what the the mobile vans can deliver yeah i was thinking that the administrative people and like the other people on site that aren't just the healthcare workers would definitely be people from the local communities so it increases and helps the local economies and definitely if we're partnering with a local like bakery or like something like that where then they could hire more people to help them for a little bit and we could definitely help reimburse that so that they're not losing any money from that either thank you so much allison it's now my pleasure to welcome aditi nitty and jasmine how many of you are in perfect health we're eagle named after the greek goddess of radiant good health here to help everyone achieve their goal i'm jasmine rising senior from greenville kentucky and my pronouns are she her i'm aditi arising senior from local kentucky and my pronouns are she they i'm nitty rising senior from austin texas and my pronouns are she her people very often overlook their personal especially mental health despite only being teenagers we've seen plenty of people doing so neglecting it physical and mental whether they're adults or our peers we've gone through our own struggle over the years with various issues varying from addiction to periods of general neglect they even went in the pits of health and exhaustion we and the people we know have always tried to reach out and help others despite any distance or time empathy can overcome any struggle yet people rarely apply towards themselves we molded this into our purpose in the problem that we start to tackle which can be divided into four components people often struggle with the basic tasks of self-care for various reasons they end up accidentally neglecting themselves and or struggle with various addictions yet most of them have no problem caring for others any combination of this is detrimental and obstacle we aim to address to focus on the component of addiction for a moment the journey to recovery begins with recognition the hardest step but one that a person needs to make on their own after recognizing the problem a person requires solutions clipping mechanisms support systems and tools this is where we come in finally the journey ends and a person comes out happier and healthier our idea began with the plant that a user can project their empathy upon and take care of by taking care of themselves we later broadened it to incorporate healing from addictions and celebrating progress as a community the inspiration came from observing our communities so to broaden our understanding we gathered data to figure out our audience by serving over 400 people from around the world most of whom are located in the united states or india we discovered that our product would connect with many adolescents and middle-aged adults over three fourth of whom set our physical reminder of their health would be helpful and that it's easier for others to care for themselves other to care for others rather than themselves we timed this all together to create our solution a goal in after the greek goddess of radiant good health we plan to partner with organizations like alcoholics anonymous and ideally it will be funded by insurance companies in an effort to decrease addiction related deaths a goal consists of two parts the first of which is an app containing a log to track daily health and set goals a journal with prompts to encourage positive thinking and progress highly customizable settings and privacy features and a chat to connect with the community of similarly struggling individuals the second part is a mechanical individualized plant that mimics the mood based motions of the digital plant and can be placed in sight as a physical empathy focused reminder of the user's health that encourages improvement in addition the app has a butterfly feature to aid with addiction and general bad habits the user receives butterflies for reaching customizable milestones and once they get the amount that they desire the user can send their butterflies to communal garden so that the collective progress of equal community and to encourage one another or for more personalized form of encouragement these we can take their butterflies out of the app and into the real world with the augmented reality camera after identifying the problem and exploring the solution we designed the prototype throughout our journey in creating the model we're about to present we changed a lot from brainstorming problems and solutions to the original idea of a plant which plays off of people's empathy to extend it towards themselves taking inspiration from our own grief jack where even across the country we check up on each other's self-care habits such as sleep and meals we drafted multiple wireframes and then created a future journey throughout the process we edited the screen design strapped a talking mechanical plant with a face because honestly it was a little creepy we added an emphasis on community features expanded on the butterfly feature and did anything possible to create a more welcoming environment for growth we finalized the product to arrive at this story Anna has been using agle for quite some time she receives encouraging reminders from her rose whenever she opens the app she customized it this way so that some of her friends wouldn't see an notification and question it because she's not ready to ask for their support quite yet she loved how much agle valued and ensured her privacy and comfort her plant is still happy from yesterday and her butterflies make her smile look at that wonderful progress she goes to fill out her log as she reflects on the day the goal she set last night was accomplished her eating disorder made the progress slow and step small but they were set nonetheless her meal water and sleep numbers made her realize just how tired she was but she got her in the bed and drank a glass of water how did she forget to drink water all day maybe because she was so focused on not drinking alcohol there that's better she decides to aim a little higher for tomorrow's whole Anna then goes to the journal and fills out the palm the last question is her favorite it's always so nice to focus on the positive when she's switching back to check on her roads for her exhibit to see it will no matter how slightly she glances up to her desk just in time to see the change I will tomorrow would be better when she turns back to the app the simulator son has said as well she goes to her community to check on her fellow companions and is very happy to see her friend for Bobby and Michelle doing better it's wonderful and people that share your struggle do well even when you're not she can start checking in on her other community but since it's been a good couple of days for that addiction she moves on to check on the butterfly garden this is her favorite part of the app so she always congratulates a couple users before going to sleep she's always excited to wake up to congratulations notification from another user that she wants to give that to others the next day she texts ebony a friend she called yesterday and they decided to go on a walk together she can't believe the progress she's made since starting angle the daily reflection and encouragement keep her motivation high when she wants to fall back into her old habits of starvation and isolation calling a friend is more than she could have imagined weeks ago and look at her now on their walk on the side to show ebony her butterflies in the augmented reality camera as they watch them settle on benches and branches she suggests ebony get the app as well for their caffeine addiction it helped her why not others ebony agrees they get the app and start reading the introduction reading could help sounds pretty good so they sign up with their email password they decide to set their goal at two meals three cups of water and six hours of sleep a little low but everyone starts somewhere ebony's been struggling with the coffee addiction for several years and has gotten horrible headaches and pains because of it there's about time to take a step and make a change for the better with all the flower options they feel a bit overwhelmed so they settle for the default option of azaleas if they like the app maybe they'll customize it later since they don't have a visible flower they skip the code portion and set their mouse down to every week a fairly decent starting point Anna assures them they can adjust later if need be when the screen loads they open settings time to start exploring angle the story of Anna and ebony is one that someone could hear about two people from any city in the world but we want to ensure that our product can reach anyone anywhere no matter what rules resources are available to them here we'll come in cover three common difficulties a user could have if a user doesn't have a mobile device angle will be available as a website the reminder sent me an email no wifi no problem it will be available in a condensed version as a mechanical plant with buttons to live progress in a notebook to set goals and journal thoughts not in a position to buy a physical plant the app's free and can be used on its own or the plant will be covered through insurance for those with disabilities such as blindness or with low vision or those who require a different language we have accessibility modifications such translations and text to speak options angle aims to reach everyone who needs us and impact their life by making it a happier one lived with radiant good health we sent our model out to several members of our communities and incorporated their feedback and quotes which you can see here they believe our design will have a positive impact on the health and lifestyle of a person using the program due to the customizability constant reflection of the encouraging community that the app provides we understand that our app is one of hundreds that's in the market trying to help people improve their help several of which we or someone we know have used many are good apps but most are specialized for one addiction with little customizability have expensive premium options and an app on its own is easy to lose track of within the many a person uses in a day despite any notifications or pop-ups it provides a physical object that can be placed in site reminds the user that their health is much more valuable than an app on its own especially when there's a consequence to selecting the app and when it covers not just addiction but general health as well personal connections are a good option as well one that our app offers the additional benefit of optional anonymous features and accessibility so in conclusion the obstacles of inadequate self-care and addiction can be overcome by consistent reflection specialized features a community of encouraging groups and a growth mindset our product aims to provide this to any individual in need of aid and help them achieve radiant good health impacting anyone and everyone who reaches out by helping them with their personal journey everyone struggles but let's grow together with able thank you all for your time we are now open to questions thank you very much for the presentation it's a really fascinating idea of the physical and the digital complimenting one another I just had a question about the the journey of somebody who is who is working through addiction and you showed it as a linear journey but honestly I think that there's often setbacks and relapses and the circularity of it how have you thought through how you might help somebody who who might get discouraged along the way we had while we did show it in the linear journey we completely understand that often progress isn't a linear thing everyone has a different journey to what they consider to be recovery we wanted to make this customizable in the way through our features in our app as you may have seen during the figma model users can set their goals each day today so once your goal is complete for that day while you're filling out the log at night you set your will for tomorrow if you feel slightly discouraged like you're not doing nearly as well as you were perhaps yesterday you can set your goal a little bit lower and it won't suffer consequences we do encourage our users to respect all of their progress and all of their ups and downs as well comment quickly um hey so I um nice presentation um I do really kind of I was like huh well that makes sense because usually I'm not the one who's thinking about my self-care it's it's um my partner or you know someone around me who's thinking about you know for example like my partner just brought me water um because it's hot out here so um I love this idea of like empathy and kind of exporting self-care to this kind of collective model I think that's clever and I think that the tools available to us now could make that actually work um so I like that idea um um what I started to get held up on just a little bit is um kind of the and again this is just what I'm gathering so I'd love for you to provide a response if you can but almost almost like this a connection between health and happiness um that I think is really complicated um you know as if when we achieve perfect health quote unquote will be happy and well um I don't think that's necessarily the case um so I maybe would invite a more expansive look at it moving away from um health as kind of defined medically to wellness as maybe um defined communally um and then I'm thinking about if we shift from health to wellness what I thought was again kind of missing a little bit in the criteria was the social factors and the political factors that often lead to things like addiction or poor health right I mean where's where's the space for a food desert showing up and one's inability inability to get you know eat the rainbow as they say or um someone living in an economic desert similarly um who couldn't afford um organic produce right um or who might be more inclined to get diabetes just because of where they're geographically located um or be more addicted because they live in a place that you know anyways we can go down that road that Michelle Alexander has much to say about that so I would love to um kind of think about I would love to hear from you like how how if at all you were thinking about how to kind of include these kind of social and political factors that lead into health um and health outcomes and and then also if it if you find it maybe appropriate at all to kind of expand the notion of health to maybe a broader sense of wellness to answer the first part of the tie between happiness and health the two are connected although it's much more complicated than what we want to into a 10 minute presentation sure if a person is unhealthy it is generally more difficult for them to be happy if this is not to say that they're constantly happy because every a healthy person has to have their ups and downs however an unhealthy person is one who struggles to maybe get up so that is where we're making the tie we're in a happier person is generally a healthier person because the tie exists there it's just more complicated than we could cover yes and um we did want to incorporate uh acknowledging your happiness even with your ups and downs through our journal feature um I think uh Anna in her story we mentioned that one of her favorite questions in the journal is the last one we always want to recognize the positive aspect of the journey itself and we want to do that through some of our more um subjective features I guess and then as for the community interactions hopefully with trying to address the social political climates of people in their individual situations we were hoping to do that through um perhaps a 2.0 version it's in the thinking process but um we did get the idea that we could have a local sort of feature along with the butterfly garden that you could um connect with others in your local community as well as the broad community of your addiction or um just general community as shown on able along with the fact that we want to partner with organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous a lot of those personal human connections wouldn't come from places like that so even beyond the app we want to encourage all of that human connection we're discussing and as for oh but as for availability of people's resources that is not something that a simple app could solve tons of components to go into creating that sort of environment but even within that environment there's always room to grow and live better and that's what we aim to do thank you so much I wanted to build on what Josh was saying just for a moment which is that there's maybe a degree an extra degree of personalization that might be possible so every individual might define happiness differently and so rather than to feel almost intimidated by not living up to what you feel society expects when it comes to happiness having that empowerment to say well for me these are my priorities this is what I'm going to be setting as my goals and then maybe even to the experience of it perhaps someone might want another creature you know thinking of the the positive benefit of biofilia and I like the idea of nature and the plant and nurturing but maybe individuals might have a different aesthetic as to what they would want maybe they want bats instead of butterflies or just thinking about what is the customization potential for even helping people not feel like it's all or nothing when it comes to succeeding with their health and happiness yes we fully appreciate your insight on that we try to incorporate a similar ideology in our creation of a few of our customization features like the journal like I mentioned earlier we do try to focus a lot on individual happiness how you define your life to be we really want the user to have be able to take the reins of their own life there and along with the customizable goal setting that all of that echoes exactly the insight you are providing and then as for the customizable features that would be lovely actually for the aesthetics we did try to incorporate that with the multiple plants option so you could use different types of plants but with the different aesthetics we could absolutely consider that in a 2.0 version thank you for your feedback I was thinking the same thing I actually would like a puppy on my version of the app if you could create that I love how you guys I love your presentation very well done and I love the innovation I think it's really cool how you're reimagining a really important concept and design of empathy and how we can use it to improve self-care I think that's really cool really innovative I also think you know as Josh was saying that there it's complicated you know the struggle with addiction and the sort of non-linear path that people go on people are very hard on themselves when they relapse people are very people don't typically feel overly happy that they spent one more day that they didn't use something but if they do use it on that same day they will be really hard on themselves so I think it's a cool feedback sort of a way to track your health and the journey of recovery to be showing it in this kind of way but I do think that it'd be really interesting to you know think about those really difficult moments that people deal with whether it's you know they're in an abusive relationship or they can't get access to food or they lost their job and some of the specific things that people might bring up as reasons that they are having a hard time or you know maybe they don't have a place to stay because they're feeling over kicked them out I mean these are just maybe a few of the things people have recently told me in the emergency room as reasons that they've relapsed I think that it would be cool if we are getting a lot of engagement in these apps to have have that moment be an opportunity to direct patients to the resources that might help them and have you guys thought about that well first I wanted to say that we do realize that addiction is a surface level condition that there's usually so many factors underneath that contribute to that whether it's a deeper mental health issue or an outside issue as you've mentioned an abusive relationship very common so we do want to offer help so I don't know if you saw it in the fake my model we went through that a little faster but in the settings we were there was a get support button where we could have landlines there and separate phone numbers there's a couple resources that are available in a mobile kind of way like texting 741 741 that's one that is very commonly used because you don't have to have the discomfort of a call it's just texting but there's a professional on the line so we do want to offer those resources and that is definitely something that we would look further into in a further version as of now this is more for a user who is metering themselves in their own environment it could very well be used alongside with a therapist or you could connect with someone in the chat so we do want to cover that we covered it a little bit but we do want to cover it more in 22.0 I think it makes sense to you know with apps like we a lot of people want to design apps and apps are all over the place and a lot of the mistakes people make early on is to try to make the app do everything and so I think that's smart in some ways to not really focus on the the main point that you're trying to get across and not try to add to many things right away but thank you for your answer thank you for your kind words and feedback it's a great point Morgan throughout your presentation which was which was really enjoyable to watch and learn from actually I was reminded of this book I can't remember the author it's called a heatwave a social autopsy of something it was about the heatwave in Chicago and how like hundreds of people died from an extensive like heatwave and the author sort of investigated the demographics of the folks that passed away during this heatwave and tried to unpack some patterns and there were some yeah that's right Quenenberg and there were some trends that you know they could sort of or try to predict as far as who they thought maybe should have died based on their socioeconomic condition that were completely sort of refuted by the actual results right so at the end of the day he was it became apparent that a lack of social infrastructure right a lack of sort of communal relationships were ultimately the driving factor for the people that were the demographics that had the higher rates of death so like the latin communities or had lower much lower rates of death men elderly men had higher rates of death because they tend to not foster those relationships later in life whereas elderly women tend to apparently so I'm just thinking about your app and like how it has the potential to kind of foster these kinds of relationships and I just think that was really delightful on the other hand though I'm thinking about like these more analog IRL kind of relationships that that could be fostered through this sort of format of care framework of care that you all are setting up I'm not sure what that looks like I'm just I'm just kind of putting that out there that is it to Morgan's point is it the app exclusively is there an app plus kind of model right is there is there is there are there other amenities that maybe can that you can kind of engage that that's that can really speak directly to to the app and how it operates while we do of course want to focus on that important human aspect our app itself doesn't focus on the real personal human connection with local communities but we do want to do that through our partnerships I think we mentioned with organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous those communities often foster those really personal relationships and through partnership with them we would absolutely love to create those kind of things though I like miss Morgan mentioned sometimes our app won't be able to do everything adequately and it really is best to leave that to our partners and we're dying to have them does that answer your question yeah absolutely it was it was it was more rhetorical than anything else but apologies but thank you for everything I know I love what you all are putting on the table and then I think Aditi mentioned it a little previously in the Q&A we were thinking of discussing a location aspect this was mentioned in one of our previous mental weekends that would be a little more difficult to implement implemented to us wanting to protect people's privacy however that could be very useful if you were looking for someone within your area to spend some one-on-one time with in real life and foster that connection you are absolutely right that is a crucial aspect of just generally just being a human I had one I had one consideration as well which is that many individuals are not just dealing with one issue so how might this app and platform help support somebody who needs to make choices so we once did research and we're speaking with a person who had a mental health issue as well as diabetes and she actually prioritized mental health because she felt that that was more important to her being able to function well and some of the the tactics that helped her with mental health actually went against the diabetes because it included meetups that often had food that wasn't necessarily supportive of her condition so that might be something in the future where you might be able to map multiple conditions and help individuals prioritize because that's something that will evolve over time we actually in figma in figma we covered it Anna she has she's an alcohol addiction and an eating addiction no eating and not eating addiction she has an eating problem so when we covered it she has two communities available one to help her with each addiction or problem that she's going through at the current moment so we do have the option for multiple addictions or multiple problems that user could have yes but we do fully understand that sometimes those things contradict each other like with the example you gave that would definitely be something to consider in future iterations thank you for that I want to congratulate your team for just how you've tackled a very complex topic head on and you've thought about it from many different angles I appreciate the balance between a very high tech solution versus also you talked about one where if you don't have access to technology how it could function I appreciate you thought about that you also thought about a balance between needing to be more private at times and needing a community at times and so you thought about multiple things could you talk a little bit more about the the interface itself and what are those design decisions you made how did you come up with those could you also talk about how would your customer hear about this beyond partnership so if you they didn't go to alcoholics anonymous or any of those groups how would they hear about this type of solution I think covered the second part of that question and I believe one of my partners are been a suitor for the first part they're amazing with design by the way can I just say but we mentioned that we plan to be funded by insurance because insurance would be motivated to decrease addiction related deaths as that is very costly for them so the insurance could put out pamphlets could advertise to their consumers that our app is a thing that it could help them also word of mouth as we showed in the story a friend talked to a friend who can talk to a friend that is a very powerful thing we also mentioned the app I am sober I have actually personally heard of it multiple times through several word of mouth methods through a couple friends I've seen it on reddit I've seen it on snapchat just people talking to people and reaching out to help is a very powerful tool and again insurance companies advertising is also something that we've considered and then ask for design yes I can do design for a bit and our design has basically five components our flower which is the home base the journal and log community aspect of it and then the butterfly garden AI and then their settings so for journal and log which was we wanted to emphasize not just like the addiction that you're dealing with but also an overall your overall general health which is why we had the food cup like food how many meals are you having per day how many water you're drinking and how much sleep are you getting and then another thing that we considered for the journal and log was that if we wanted to have like a goal that we put out or just like the user want to pick their own goal and we decided the user should pick their own goal because again addiction is not just a linear pathway which we covered in the starting and they should be able to pick on what they want to have as their goal where they are how they're feeling at the moment for the community a lot of communities in many different apps they actually look very similar to ours it's a pretty simple disc user and you can comment we didn't want to have like instagram and other social medias they have a like concept of it we didn't want to have that just because it creates a very social media very competitive kind of thing even if only the user sees how many likes you are getting the butterfly garden was something that we added on after we set in the first initial design and the butterfly garden we just wanted to reward kind of a reward system but also a community system where you can see there's a visual there's other people out here like they might not be on the same fight you're but they're also fighting and they're also there the AI part um we actually got the idea for mentor weekend like so there's a view like sitting at a park and you just relaxed and then there's you can just have butterflies flying around you this is a little happiness kind of thing thank you yeah i'm sort of going back and forth on how much i want to push this but so for any um for any app or for any um any sort of interface where you're collecting information about a patient there's always going to be the question of like how are you monitoring it how you're responding to it um you know patients might write things in there that are things that would otherwise if they told their therapist need to be responded to in an emergent sort of way um the main things that we think about are you know plan to kill yourself plan to kill someone else plan to hurt a child um and so then there's other the other thoughts that may not be as you know have as like straightforward of a response pathway like aggressive conversations on like an interactive platform or um you know inappropriate things that one person might say to another in front of others on that kind of platform um but especially using insurance to fund this that that would over complicate the issue of how to deal with that kind of information and so i wonder if you guys have thought about this or if you've learned about it through researching other apps that exist um how you would handle that situation? We've thought about the chat aspect where making sure that people don't discourage one another instead so we've considered having flag words like kill or like a lot of social media apps have that as well make sure that the content is kept friendly so that could be one option having actual people look over it because this is such a delicate thing having real people go through the comments that might be a bit more of a project but it could be a surefire way to ensure that nothing is on there that shouldn't be. As for the journal you bring up very good points that i don't believe we've fully discussed but a similar operation could be beneficial and there's a thin line between someone can sit contemplating it and planning and then also just being in a heated moment and mentioning something that would have to be something that the user would have to be aware of that hey watch your language here but that could also discourage them from being honest so you're absolutely right it is a very thin line that we have not fully discussed but you give us very good things to think about and we actually have not thought about the insurance part but we don't insurance is corporate which complicates things as well but we do believe that that would be the best option for funding as opposed to perhaps government funding because they would have the best intentions if you will but yeah if i may add on yes for the insurance fund companies funding that we could in fact restrict it so the guidelines aren't as complicated perhaps two cases they deem safe in a way and if not we will be receiving revenue from selling the physical plans our price point is fairly low to make it affordable but receiving revenue nonetheless which could be used to further design advancements like jasmine just discussed as well as the fact you mentioned okay if someone's planning something bad in their journal or log of the sort then aside from the fact that the journal entries are fairly short you can only fit about two sentences in there not enough to make a detailed plan or anything incredibly negative we also try to give consistent positive reminders it is difficult to speak of those things i guess or put those things into the journal if you're in a constantly positive space you have this constant encouragement if someone were to do those sort of things it likely wouldn't be in the journal simply because it wouldn't allow for it logistically as well as yes me to mention some buzzwords that we could simply just give a small warning like hey you're using a little bit of harsh language here are you sure you want to add this or do you mean something else and then of course things like the journal would be kept private and as always we encourage all of our users to reach out if they're able with partner organizations and therapy if you have access to it not everyone does but wherever you have access outside of the app it's also important we do encourage our users to go to other sources if they're able but yes we thank you for those points it's good for us to think about thank you in the future there might be a the possibility of having pattern recognition where using your voice or changes in your behavior or your interactions that there could be flags that would alert even yourself that you know it seems that you're shifting in and how you're feeling about something and and just using the technology to identify some of those signals in terms of behavioral changes that might be mine you and triggered by a voice or tonality absolutely um oh i'm sorry none not good right um uh that would absolutely be something to consider uh if we are able to do anything of the sort considering privacy features as we discussed uh and as miss morgan mentioned um it is fairly sensitive information information so if we're able to make any adequate guidelines restrictions so that information is safe that would definitely be something to consider thank you i think also if you if you do consider like building out ai into the app you know it might be i i think it's really important also to kind of look at bias in ai especially when it comes to things like um words that are used right what databases is it trained on um because they can you can easily discriminate or get things out of context if it's not trained on a diverse set of data with kind of different uses of even english you know um and also specifically around like mannerisms and how someone shows up right on on a um a screen so for example you know if i if i had something like parkinsons right and the ai is trained on a database that thinks that you know my moving around means that i'm aggravated or anxious and then flags there's a health issue and it's really just a fact of my body you know that's that's an issue and it's sorry there's a plan that's a that's kind of an issue of uh exclusivity and justice right so as long as uh when you introduce systems like that it's just it's just an opportunity and invitation to look at you know uh what is the machine deeming as right and wrong how is it making those decisions and is the root of that decision equitable and inclusive most of the times it's not which is a really good opportunity for you as designers to expand what those tools do absolutely thank you that is incredibly valuable um i myself have like minor research into uh the biases in ai and you're completely correct oftentimes it doesn't consider the perspective of my minorities other groups honestly um anything from what it deems normal which is as you said often biased so um i think we actually did discuss having a lot of these features that um would require ai and we ultimately scrapped them simply because we wouldn't be able to ensure privacy or accuracy like you mentioned um and we completely agree with your insight wonderful thanks thank you aditi nudie and yasmina i'd love to welcome back all of our finalists to turn their videos back on if you're able to wonderful and i'll invite our judges now to unmute and join me in giving a huge round of applause to all of our finalists once again guys did a remarkable job presenting and i know our judges have a very tough decision to make we'll take a short break now and when we return our judges will announce the winner of the 2021 national high school design competition the nyc primary election will take place tuesday june 22nd early voting will be available june 12th to 20th allowing you to vote whenever it's convenient for you this 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you've thought through so many details of these solutions and it's just absolutely impressive i think for all of us to see high schoolers doing something that none of us would be doing in high school at least speaking for myself but really cool and awesome to see see what you guys have been working on thanks Morgan we really had a tough time with this one you are all so impressive and the fact that you are finalists among what vaso said was 800 plus entries that itself i think you should pat yourselves on the back that's so incredible that you're finalists we thought you all took on some of the most complex topics and challenges head on there was a fearlessness with which you approached your solutions you really went deep with looking at what the problems were and how to best your research was was quite inspiring to us it's relevant to the times because for the last year at least we've all been focused on health and wellness and human connection and so the way you're thinking about it i think you will help us all moving forward your presentations were simply outstanding you were so well prepared your slides were great and we were impressed with how you answered some really tough questions from all of us we thought all of you i think would benefit from learning more about community partnerships because that came up as a possible suggestion and for some of these community based solutions it's great when you can bring partners along with you so we hope that you'll consider that we have a little bit of feedback that i'll share for each group and then we'll announce the winner so group one Paulina and Alexis we thought you really did great with tackling the problem of access you had really thought about the space quite deeply the design of the overall pod and how technology could solve a lot of those problems you considered the means for enabling and furthering care and you really did go quite far in questioning the notion of health we appreciated that you considered audiences with disabilities and you also thought about your design being adaptable to the communities that they were in so all of those were strengths what we thought you should think about a little bit more was of course the people aspect of your solution how could you think about this more as a system not only from the point of diagnosis and conversations at the front but actually the care at the at the end of it and how people would access not only care but medications and other services and how you could get the community more involved so if you were to think about it more from a people-centered solution versus a space-centered solution what might you do differently we also want you to think about things like maintenance and unintended consequences and how will this be delivered and maybe as you think about moving your idea forward that you actually think about role play what would it be like to walk into a pod and what would that experience be that might help you think about enhancing the experience but overall Bravo that was quite amazing what you did over several weeks we could see that your idea really evolved from what you had initially proposed Allison we absolutely loved that you took such a user-centered approach you were so people-centered you thought about mobility we appreciated that you used anecdotal data and you really looked at the social dimension of health you were really explicit with where your data was coming from and you presented the ethnographic data in such a rich way and showed not only talked about the data but you showed how it actually affected your design and impacted your design we think you had such an honest approach to research that we were blown away if there's a small point that we might suggest is to think more about how you framed the problem and that might take you further as you think about evolving your idea group three we appreciated that you were from three different schools and you still collaborated and that said a lot about not only that spirit of collaboration but you're very interdisciplinary approach to your solution you leaned into care as a verb which impressed us we were also really impressed by how you tackled the very tough questions that my fellow judges and I put in front of you and we would love for you to think more about and analyze what are those popular notions of health and what it means to be healthy as you continue to evolve your design but I would say we had such a tough time because each of you impressed us for a moment there we thought you could stand you know shoulder to shoulder with professionals out there and some of the judges actually felt like we were working on solutions that you proposed but you actually took it much further that any of us had seen out there so we are blown away we feel very optimistic about the future and you left as inspired so a round of applause to all of you that was really inspiring and so we did pick a winner but I want to assure you that all of you for us this was so tough but we felt like group three you are the winners of this year's competition congratulations it was a tough topic we appreciated that all of you thought about how to advance your ideas but to take on the challenges that you took on the innovation was what really blew us away you brought a balance to your ideas of thinking about high tech versus low tech and you really looked at the problem in many many different ways so congratulations and my colleagues and I look at your idea moving forward and hope to see it out in the market someday thank you congratulations again to all of our finalists and the winner of this year's high school design competition thank you all so much for watching