Cortex

(Update regarding the future of this app)

During the past few months Cortex has been receiving quite a bit of support. I personally was not expecting the amount of people using the app as a go to tool for people who might have been struggling with memory loss. However I personally feel that the app in this state is unfinished I owe it to all my users to deliver a polish experience that is better adapted to working with its users and improving their quality of life. Over the next few months this app will be receiving updates with features that greatly improve the quality and accessibility for the users of this app. Cortex 2.0 will be the version launching with such features and will be released sometime this summer.

There are many features I am planning to release with this update. More app to user communication is one of them. That means that the app will talk to the user more and will have programmed in routines to help improve the polish of the program. Scheduling tasks will receive a huge overhaul. Plans for this include having tasks be partitioned into categories. These categories would include Getting ready for your day, Morning activities, Lunch, Afternoon activities, Dinner, Evening activities and Getting ready for bed. Users can select which activities to put in each of the groups and the times at which they start and end. The app will focus on one of these groups at a time. Another feature is multiple schedules. These will include schedules for each day of the week and custom schedules for certain dates (for example holidays). The whiteboard will add its own features including helpers to remotely view and change a users whiteboard via a separate app.

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.