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-# spd1
-Senior Project Design 1
+# Health Smart Mirror
+Senior Project
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+# Backend
+- Store data in a database
+- Create an API for interfaces with health data
+  - Pull health related data from a specified user(s)
+    - Sleep Data
+    - Calories Burned
+    - Time spent at a location where the exercise is performed
+    - Steps
+  - Medication tracking and updating
+  - Interface with Apple's HealthKit
+  - Manual data entry
+  - Importing of health data from files (xml, json, etc.)
+    - May need a custom parser?
+- Health data comparisons 
+  - Based on classifications/ categorization such as...
+    - age ranges
+    - locality
+    - race/ ethnicity
+    - gender
+    - etc...
+  - Setting/ defining thresholds for flagging current health status
+- Scrape web for health-related articles / info
+
+# Frontend
+- Overview description of health status
+  - Percentile ranking compared to the average population (classifications/ categorization)
+  - Highlight areas in need of improvement and/ or under-performance
+- Login
+  - Select User that is at screen
+  - prompt for password of the account
+- Recommended
+  - Activities the user can perform to enhance their under-performing health categories
+  - Trend lines over the last month for each category
+- Profile Customization
+  - Change text, font, size, etc. of the UI
+  - Select categories that interest the individual (tailored feed)
+    - User highlights one area they want to improve and display relevant web-based content
+- Reminder System
+  - Allow for user to type custom messages and assign to a calendar date
+- Friendly Wake Up
+  - Display a message on start to encourage the user to continue efforts
+- Visualize health data
+  - Carry over visualizations from Apple's health app
+  - Sleep data over period of time
+  - Calories burned in comparison to average and maximum
+  - Pie chart the health data comparisons
+  - Forecasted steps for day
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