文档介绍：‘Timeless’ memories
When Emma Yang was 7 or 8 years old, her grandmother got
Alzheimer’s disease (阿兹海默症). It m‘Timeless’ memories
When Emma Yang was 7 or 8 years old, her grandmother got
Alzheimer’s disease (阿兹海默症). It made her grandmother lose her
memory. She couldn’t even recognize ( 认出) her own family members.
Yang, now 14, decided to create an app to help people with this disease.
Her app is called Timeless. It uses facial recognition technology.
Alzheimer’s patients can use the app to look at photos of their friends and
family. The app will tel l them who the person is and how they’re related
to the patient. If a patient doesn’t recognize someone in the same room,
they can take a picture and the app will try to identify them.
Yang got the idea after seeing how facial recognition is used in
different areas, especially healthcare. She worked with a tech company to
create the facial recognition software that her app uses. She learned to
code (编码) for the iPhone for the first time in the process.
The app is still in development. Yang is trying to raise money
through crowdfunding (众筹) so she can take the next step – letting
patients try a pilot version (实验版本) of the app. Though some may
think that the app is too hard for older people to use, Yang is hopeful. “If
you introduce it to them the right way,