Johns Hopkins

Lucidity, a mobile application and ecosystem being developed by a team led by Kishore Kuchibhotla, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Location

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Industry

Health

Services

AI Transformation, Development

Technologies

Node.js, Flutter

At a glance

We partnered with Johns Hopkins University Medical school (Kuchibhotla Lab) to combat Alzheimer’s disease. We helped doctors and scientists at JHU design an application that allows Alzheimer’s patients to play “brain games” on a tablet or smartphone, all while bio-medical devices gather the patient's biometrics. The web service compares the data from the patients biometrics in real time with the brain games results — to ultimately produce new Alzheimer’s data that is pivotal to finding a cure for this disease. Due to the application’s success, Lucidity has received further funding from the University and has partnered with us to continuously add new features to the application over the next few years.

Solution

Using the tablet-based application, caregivers help patients take a battery of simple cognitive tests and also use the tablet's microphone and camera to record patients multiple times per week, including when they are lucid. During these activities, the app's sensor module captures key health data. The goal is to then apply data mining and artificial intelligence to these individualized datasets to identify factors that drive patients' cognitive fluctuations and even predict triggers for lucid episodes.

Outcome

The application has scaled to caregivers across the United States.

Valere has partnered with Johns Hopkins University for multiple years now on multiple projects and is still evolving Lucidity.

Insights

Challenge

The Valere team of UX/UI designers was first tasked with working with Kuchibhotla Lab’s team to design the application from scratch. This 6-week period included fleshing out detailed low-fidelity wireframes and flow diagrams, before making them into beautiful, intuitive colorful designs and mockups.

Actions

Valere deployed their dedicated team of developers to create an interactive and easy-to-navigate application. The team developed the application in Flutter and NodeJS while also specially designing a friendly User Interface that is ideal for Alzheimer patients and a research team.

Results

The application was met with great success and has allowed the research team to record important data that has propelled their Alzheimer’s research forward, along with receiving further funding from Johns Hopkins University.