1. ANDROID APP. FOR ELDERY Jack Whelan

2. Introduction  Regular Exercise is an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle  Having a structured routine helps making it a regular activity  Phones are constantly reminding us of birthdays and other events, why not use a phone to encourage a user to do some exercise

3. Introduction  Eating health is the other important factor of leading a heathly lifeslyle  It is not always clear how many calories our food contains  Phones can access huge databases online, why not use this to help users decide what to eat

4. Introduction  Many foods contain substances that can cause allergic reactions  Often it is not obvious what ingedients are present in products  Elderly people often cannot read the ingredients because of a too small font

5. Solution!  Healthy lifestile advising app.  Daily food suggestions  Alert messages encouraging exercise  Game to keep mind busy  Indoor step up activity  Weather based suggestions for exercises  Barcode scanner to prevent allergic substances to be ingested

6. Layout  Simple user interface with tabbed layout and big buttons

7. Initial Setup  Once of set up required (can be adjusted any time)

8. Example of Calorie Monitoring  Graphs calories burned per hour over the day  User can see when they are most active  Shows distance walked based on users step stride

9. Indoor step up counter  Graphs step up rate  Shows demonstration video  Can be reset  Easy to use

10. Touch Game  Game to test reflexes  Highscore list  Slighlty addicting

11. Barcode Scanner  The following products are currently in the online database for demonstration purposes:  Galaxy Carmel 48g  Tayto Cheese and Onion Chrisp 25g  Nature Valley Oasts and Honey  To show what happens when a product is not found Haribo StartMix is not in the database

12. Weather  Can display today and tomorrows weather conditions for any location in the world  Makes decision based on current and future weather

13. Designing Icons  GIMP Photo editor was used  Icons have two states – selected and unselected

14. Food Recomendation  Downloads list of food and asscociated calories  User can click the food they want to eat  This will be added to daily calorie consumed count  Exercise recomendation based on food consumed

15. Project Milestones  Identification of suitable exercises for older adults  Integration of accelerometer based algorithm to monitor exercise activity  Exercise performance tracking over time. Video demonstration of exercises  Integration of all system components in user friendly and attractive manner  System development to provide increased functionality for use by older adults

16. Conclusion  This is a very usefull little app that has a lot of potential if large companies such as Tesco and Dunnes Stores provided their databases for the various food based alogythms in the app.  Future versions could integrate social networking where friends are infromed of other users activity to motivate them to go for a walk