Wrapping it up
On our final day here in Salone, the AISHA team spent the day making sure that the devices in our three pilot locations were set up and ready to go.
To start, we went to the Loreto clinic and spent a considerable amount of time with Sister Adama, Sister Philomena, and Elizabeth. We set up the device using a common departmental cell phone with the intended purpose of equipping them with the ability to resolve any potential problems that arise, the possibility of which is thankfully very low. We further taught them how to set up, use, and troubleshoot our devices just in case. To conclude Loreto, our partners are very enthusiastic about our project and will remain in touch with us in regards to any new data they would like to equip AISHA with or regarding any problems they face with the device throughout the year.
Following our experience at Loreto, the team retreated to the office and proceeded to tie up loose ends. The focus was working on a feedback form that we would utilize to obtain crucial suggestions and accounts of experiences from our device’s users in the medical centers. Natalie took the lead on this task while the others worked on a couple of final tasks, such as drafting a LinkedIn post for AISHA or optimizing Alexa to recognize the number of hits on our functionality. Before we knew it, an hour had passed, and as AISHA was scheduled for a follow-up meeting at Branda, we went to the hospital.
As the rest of the team was still wrapping up their work, Maaz and Gabriela left for the meeting at Branda. The meeting’s purpose was to set up the Alexa application on Emanuel’s phone, the point-person on the hospital’s side for AISHA. This was intended for the same reasons at Loreto, to diminish the possibility of unresolvable issues. However, upon reaching there, we realized that the device was being utilized incorrectly by the staff. The problem was that the staff had been asking Alexa medical questions without opening the vetted AISHA functionality, and the result was Alexa giving out high-risk information from uncertified websites online.
After exchanging greetings, Maaz and Gaby promptly dealt with the situation. We proceeded to review the key material associated with the usage of the device and provided the staff with another demonstration of AISHA, only this time making sure that all of the crucial utilization information was crystal clear. After that, Gaby kept the staff’s attention by asking questions about the day-to-day activities at Branda and the type of content they would like on AISHA. This allowed Maaz to work on Emanuel’s phone in the meantime and set up the device. This consisted of downloading an Alexa APK, installing the Alexa application, and setting up an account for Emanuel. After this was done, Maaz and Gaby explained how to set up the device, the intricacies of Alexa’s response time, the proper way to open AISHA, and provided the staff with an ethical review clarifying that AISHA was for medical practitioners only. After ensuring their clarity of AISHA, we opened AISHA Quizzes as a way to humorously engage with the staff and spent some time with them simply playing around with the device. We obtained Emanuel’s and the hospital technician, Momo’s, contact information which concluded our meeting.
Upon Maaz and Gaby’s return to the office, the others had nearly completed their work too. We packed up our bags and said farewell to World Hope, the office that had served as a home to us in the past weeks. We thanked our colleagues at World Hope for their cooperation and said goodbye as we left for the hotel one last time.