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Mindmaps: Using technology to make life better

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During the second class of Advanced Professional Skills we have worked on creating mind-maps within our team of a potential use of technology that could make life better for a subset of people. Our team decided to try to come up with a mind-map that could help the elderly.

We started off by putting our heads together and trying to think of creative yet functional ways that a product would aid our target audience. Having came up with an idea of a 'robot companion' we went ahead and started to create the mind-map.

We have decided that the 'robot companion' would need to have various features, uses  as well as aid with employability.

The primary uses of the 'robot companion' would be to bring comfort, act as a translator as well as provide basic medical assistance. Due to the worlds aging population, more and more people, especially the elderly, are left alone at their homes. That not only makes them feel lonely but also increases the chance that were they in need of medical assistance, they wouldn't be able to reach out by themselves. The 'robot companion' would be able to provide to the person in those instances as well as act as a translator if needed.

Such 'robot companion' would be made from recycled plastic making it eco-friendly as well as decrease the production costs making it cheap.

There are many professions that would be needed to create such a 'companion' which would increase employability in many sectors, mainly within: Philosophy, AI Engineering, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Testing as well as in Production Operators.

Having completed our mind-map we are proud to think that we came up with some good ideas. Here is a picture of the mind-map we have created for our 'Robot Companion' solution to help the elderly through technology.





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