WELL @ Wellesley: Quarantine Companion

Okapi Papi - WHACK 2022

Connection and Wellness: Growing & Recovering in a pst COVID world

• When students test positive or are close contacts for COVID today the quarantine process restricts them to their room for about a week
• For many students the loneliness of isolation, the sickness from COVID, and the pressure from missing classes begins to build up and the student must contend with any symptoms from COVID as well as the additional mental fatigue
• Student organizations on campus on campus have mobilized to coordinate food deliveries, mask deliveries, and other services to minimize these pressures with varying degrees of success
• Okapi Papi’s app seeks to alleviate the additional stress from COVID isolation by centralizing and streamlining campus resources and providing a holistic wellness platform

Key Functionalities

• Resources Page
• Has subsection for students to request meal delivery based on their dining hall, connected to Wellesley fresh
• Forms to submit for masks, other supplies
• These forms will be processed outside of the app in a page connected for resources coordinators
• COVID Testing Page
• Connected to COLOR testing for Wellesley (or other COVID testing platform)
• Has testing tracker to help students get tested at the right time
• Tracker page
• Daily symptom tracker for physical and mental symptoms
• Follows student progress and connects them to the appropriate resources as needed (Stone Center, MGH hospital)
• Donation Page
• Accessible page consolidating donations via platforms like venmo, cash app, zelle, etc.
• Volunteer sign up forms
• Information on how to support someone with COVID while being safe

Initial prototypes

Sign up page - students will fill out additional information like their dorm room, dietary restrictions, etc

Testing page- app is internally connected to testing platform

Profile Page:

Profile Information

Mood / Symptom Tracker

Outstanding requests

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Donation/Volunteer tab

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Resource tab

Mood tracker tab

Sign Up / Profile

Expansion Opportunities

• Cockroach DB: would use this database to store information about mood tracker and symptom tracker throughout a students quarantine. This information could be accessed by medical personal as well to help with care
• Twilio: Implement twilio to run notifications for the symptom / mood tracker and meal delivery incorporating text alerts

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Accessibility

Adaptability

Domain.com

• App is designed with accessibility in mind so all buttons, labels, text boxes are designed for screen readers and other accessibility functions. The app itself is meant to increase accessibility of campus resources for individuals in quarantine.

• App is modified to specifically serve the Wellesley community, but functionality can be easily adapted to serve other Universities

• We used the domain okapipapi.tech for this project with the vision of web development for further development opportunities