Cortex

An app to aid people with memory loss in an easy to use way

Winner of MIT app inventor's app of the month February 2018 and a major part of Cottage Cheese Strikes again DI challenge Cortex is an app built to help people with memory loss. Our app allows the user do a variety of things to aid those with memory loss. Our app helps someone with their daily activities by showing them what they are doing and whats next in their list of tasks. Users can easily complete or undo a task and upon completion a user set helper is contacted which could be very useful if for example a helper needed to know if the user has taken their pills. Users can jot down anything they want on a whiteboard that is always being shown to them, and if that's not good enough it can be read to them by the app. Reminders can also be set and will remind the user at a set time via text to speech. Users can easily call any contacts they choose just by using the call command and saying the name of the person. Also 911 and the user set helper can be both called just by saying emergency or helper respectively when using the call command. The app itself interfaces with the user by using voice commands to receive information. The app gives the user information via text to speech eliminating the need to read and allowing more people the ability to use our app. Our app also can help guide a user as at any point a user can say help and the app will tell them all the commands that they can use with a description. Beyond that our app has plenty of settings. From improving accessibility to just plain aesthetic changes our app supports a number of customization settings to give you a personalized experience.