Cardinals

Making the decision to become pregnant is momentous for every woman; this is the moment once she understands that her breath is for two, her nutrition is for two, her peace is for two. Regardless of the first time or not, expecting mothers deserve the best prenatal education and care for their physical and psychological health. While education can be widely provided from obstetricians, classes and online resources to support mothers in staying healthy and safe, mental changes, discomfort, nervosity likely occur, accumulate and sometimes lead to maternal depression that severely influence mothers’ health and even children development. Therefore, it is essential for pregnant women to not only receive education from experts but also attentive protection and care from their partners, family and friends. Our product is a MoM WebBot in which pregnant women will find MoM as her new friend and share their problems in terms of feeling and desire of diet, leisure activities as MoM is able to give out advice, suggestions and encouragement. MoM is also integrated with interesting entertainment therapies such as exclusive music and virtual reality meditation. MoM is a timely solution for expecting mother who are seeking for prenatal information by actively asking it; it can also able to connect users to experts or therapist for further knowledge if they need. The distinctive feature which users can obtain from MoM is its ability to involve their family members to receive information about users’ status, maternal health and desires. As “It is not always easy to tell about your problem with your people!” and it is impossible for a virtual character to replace any humanity tasks such as caring, MoM represent as a messenger to send reminder to users’ family members about maternal check-up schedule, classes, activity that they are sharing with. More importantly, MoM will detect frequent discomfort occurring to pregnant users like depression every week. From that, MoM can send text messages to users’ partners or family members so that they can timely give cares and support. In short, MoM is a product of efficiently engaging technology to provide real-time solutions and therapies, involve family members and reinforce relationship during pregnancy time.

Our team includes 3 graduate students who have a strong interest in coding and apply our skills to address real-life issues. Together, we had participated and won in various hackathon events like CUA Hackathons, DC Disrupts and VHacks from which we experienced and learned. MoM Project was initially started at Bison Hackathon 2018 and attracted Ms. Christine Matheney on Devpost who introduced us about Imagine Cup 2018. This competition really attracts us in terms of boosting our passion in developing and engaging technology to positively improve human lives. Thanh C. Nguyen, Catholic University of America (CUA), Electrical Engineering, Graduation Year: 2019 - Thanh Nguyen is currently a Research Assistant and enrolled in the PhD program at CUA Department of Electrical Engineering. With a strong passion in optical applications, computer vision and deep learning. Thanh would like to apply his skills and results in research to address practical issues. Interestingly, he has successfully established digital holography microscopy and machine learning method in order to distinguish sub-populations in human invasive cancer cell lines which can further support breast cancer detection. Vy Bui, Catholic University of America (CUA), Electrical Engineering, Graduation Year: 2019 - Vy Bui is a PhD student in Department of Electrical Engineering, CUA. Her research interests include medical image analysis targeting on heart disease using computer vision and deep learning. She is working on her thesis in the collaboration of Catholic University of America and National Institute of Health. Recently, Vy had attended in the first-ever VHacks at Vatican, where she was first exposed and learned about virtual reality (VR) from a Microsoft mentor and conducted a VR solution to shorten misunderstanding in interfaith dialogue. Vy believes that VR can do much more than leisure activity and would like to explore more on this amazing field. Son Dinh, Catholic University of America (CUA), Electrical Engineering, Graduation Year: 2019. Son Dinh is enrolling in Master Program at CUA Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also a Research Assistant with a CUA faculty Dr. Hang Liu to perform study on application of reinforcement learning in communication which is the core principle for any interchange. He keens on applying natural language processing and artificial intelligent to develop communicating bot, which made him become winners in two recent hackathon events: CUA Homelessness Versus Hackathon and DC Disrupt.