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iKAAN: Protecting Memory at Every Stage

About the Project

iKAAN is a futuristic, web-based task planner designed for patients navigating memory-related and neurodegenerative conditions in the year 2200. While it appears as a simple to-do list, its deeper purpose is to support memory, identity, and long-term cognitive care through structure, accessibility, and patient autonomy.

The name reflects our core belief: in the year 2200, you KAAN protect memory at every stage.

Inspiration

As students in health and medical sciences, we are constantly exposed to the realities of neurological decline, long-term care, and the emotional impact of memory loss on patients and families. This led us to ask an important question: what if a to-do list didn’t just track tasks, but actively helped protect memory and identity?

Rather than treating this project as a purely technical exercise, we wanted to design something that felt empathetic, clinically grounded, and meaningful. iKAAN allowed us to imagine a future of advanced cognitive technologies while staying rooted in real patient needs we care deeply about.

How We Built It

iKAAN was built entirely as a front-end web application using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The system features a structured task layout divided into four stages of cognitive care, represented as futuristic healthcare categories. Users can dynamically create, delete, and complete tasks, with progress saved using local storage.

We also implemented an interactive calendar that allows users to schedule chip-related procedures, therapy sessions, and daily cognitive tasks. The interface was intentionally designed to be clean and modular, reducing cognitive overload and supporting intuitive navigation.

Each section represents a different stage of memory care, allowing users to move through the system like a guided care pathway.

What We Learned

Through this project, we learned how to translate healthcare concepts into interactive digital systems, manage user interaction and application state, and balance technical functionality with accessibility and user-centered design. As non–computer science students, building a fully interactive application strengthened our confidence in learning technical skills independently and applying them meaningfully.

Challenges We Faced One of our biggest challenges was integrating multiple interactive components, such as task lists, calendar functionality, and navigation, without overwhelming users or breaking functionality. We also had to be intentional about design decisions to ensure accessibility for users who may experience cognitive fatigue.

Debugging persistent data, managing state conflicts, and refining layout consistency required continuous iteration and problem-solving.

Reflection iKAAN reframes a familiar tool into something care-oriented and future-facing. It demonstrates that technology does not need to be complex to be powerful. Often, structure, clarity, and empathy create the greatest impact. This project represents not only what we built, but how we think, combining health knowledge, creativity, and technical problem-solving to design tools that truly matter.