Sicker

• Organization : Olin College of Engineering
• Date : December 12, 2018
• Skills : Java, Android Native Programming

Starting from the desire to show how a lot of very used systems could have a hidden part that keep the user from knowing exactly how the result to his request was built, I wanted to come out with a very trustful application that would be able to bring the user to a final state where he can understand the importance of this problem and how it could impact their lives.

I chose to relate my application to the medicine field, building a fake symptoms-to-diagnotic interface concerning injuries. With this application, the user can answer a few questions to estimate what injury he most likely have, to arrive on a screen presenting the probability for him to have this injury and a few physicians around him where he could schedule an appointment.

The most interesting part of this app -where all its meaning is showed- is on this screen. The user has to choose between some sponsored physicians (that are objectively more attractive, closer to the user and proposing an interesting discount) and some non-sponsored physicians (more expensive and visually less trustfull). The final idea is to show to the user that the best choice he could do is this sponsored physician, who is not the best but who pays to be part of the top-of-the-list.

This application is built around a card interface that the user can simply swipe to agree or disagree with a question, or to schedule an appointment with a physician. This model brings the user-friendly interface that was expected, and this trust is reinforced by the fact that this app is available on the Google Play Store (link here) as any other regular application.

A lot of obvious references are made in those interfaces: all the sponsored physicians are closer to the user than the non-sponsored doctors, but are we sure that all the doctors of the city are listed in the app? Who knows if all the restaurants are listed in Google Maps? The sponsored doctors are interesting for their price, because of their big discounts. On Amazon (or any other online shop), the sponsored products always present big discounts too, but are they going to satisfy your needs and are they really worth their price?

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