Balanced Brain

Project Description:

Project Description

Our project was developed in partnership with Renew Neurotherapy, a Neurofeedback clinic located in Ottawa. We sought to adapt their Balanced Brain Points Program (BBPP), a program that aims to improve mental health through tracking and improving habits and setting lifestyle goals, from its paper and pencil method to a modern, digital solution. Our goal was to create a digital solution that could be easily used by patients and encourage continual usage and to provide their therapist with data and insights on how they are progressing.

Balanced Brain (by Renew) is our solution and an innovative application that helps patients with mental health issues to develop healthy lifestyle changes. We began the process with thorough user research and went through 3 iterations of design, prototype, and usability testing to figure out the best approach for users. Meanwhile, after the client meetings and extensive technological research, we figured out the technology solution to fit our client’s needs and requirements.

Our application has three profiles of different access levels and is designed to be responsive with various devices from mobile to desktop focusing on accessibility.

As a Patient :
Track daily activities and reflect on them
Get customized daily rewards based on completing activities
Share progress with their therapists

As a Therapist :
View their patients’ data
Create new patient accounts
Track daily records and progress
Manage the list of activities, reflection questions, and rewards for each patient

As an Admin :
View all patients and therapists in the clinic
Create new patient and therapist accounts
Manage the list of default activities, reflection questions, and motivational quotes

Although we faced many challenges in the process of our project, we learned a lot throughout it. Technical knowledge we acquired through working on the application include the use of Firebase authorization and how to implement it; Creating an app using NextJS as a framework; and annotating code using JSDoc. Aside from technical knowledge, we gained experience in communicating with a client to determine their needs in order to provide a proper solution. Furthermore, we gained experience from working as a team by utilizing team members’ strengths and assisting each other through hurdles. We can say it was a valuable experience for all of us. We would like to thank our client, professors, and Algonquin College for this opportunity.

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