TIMELINE: 2023.4 ~ 2023.5
CONTEXT: Team Product | Internship (with Mindray) | Sophomore Design
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ROLE: Competitor Analysis | Concept Generation
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GlucoGaurd is a band that can monitor diabetes patients' blood sugar in real time. What makes GlucoGaurd outstanding is that it has a little space for storing Glucose pills. When mentioning about diabetes, how to lower the blood sugar is the first thing that comse to most people's minds. However, fighting the unstability in patients' everyday routine, and they also undergo hypoglycemia quite often.
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Background Research
Diabetes, a long span and severe disease, now has become common globally. There is one out of every 14 people worldwide is diagnosed with diabetes. Because of its generalization, diabetes patients rather be treated as healthy people while eager to gain care from others.
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Diabetes patients are becoming younger and younger, so their needs for social activities are more than elderly patients. However, there exists misunderstanding that diabetes is aroused by eating too much sugar, and that's all on patient's fault, which may lead patients developing a sense of illness shame.
Moreover, maintaining blood sugar level is exhausted, bringing patients anxiety and guilty whenever the blood sugar is too high or too low. What's worse, comparing to dealing with high blood sugar, having snacks is the only solution to raise their blood sugars, which is relatively neither stable nor safe.
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Solution
GlucoGaurd can not only monitor patients' blood sugar levels in real time and provide feedbacks in different method, but more importantly, it can also serve as a storage for pills to raise their blood sugar. If comparing these two, the latter one seems to be an additional function, but this is actually the concept: diabetes isn't only about hyperglycemia, but the unstability of patients' blood sugar, therefore raising blood sugar should be as significant as lowering blood sugar.
There are two ways of notifying patients when GlucoGaurd detecting abnormal blood sugar situation. With friendly notification and gentle appearance instead of strict medical devices, patients' illness shame can be eased.
Take raising blood sugar seriously and standardize what patients will take in, and only then patients can have better experience and positive attitude toward the illness.
HIGHLIGHT: GlucoGaurd emphasise that diabetes does not equal to hyperglycemia, but hypoglycemia too. What's more, it aims to make diabetes patients’ lives easier. Diabetes is never a barrier for hanging out and diabetes patients deserve colorful lives as well.
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