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Balance: Therapy App for Adolescents with Eating Disorders

Balance - Therapy App for Adolescents with Eating Disorders

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Stanford | Biodesign Digital Health

Stanford, California, US

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Overview

Balance is a companion application to support patients suffering from eating disorders in-between therapy sessions. Balance tracks emotional regulation in adolescents with anorexia nervosa to reduce their emotional and physiological stress during mealtimes.


Key Milestones

  • Took project ownership at a CS-student coding level and had it ready for clinical use in 3 months
  • 18+ months running in a closed-trial context within Stanford Clinic

Services Provided

  • Celteeka has been Balance's technology partner since March 2023 after class CS324 was done with the project.
  • We held bi-weekly design and discovery meetings until we had a clear understanding of the features. Once we had a common understanding we proceeded with task creation using Github Issues and then internal poker planning sessions to estimate level of effort (LoE).
  • After each 2-week iteration we demoed with Product what we had accomplished, gathered early feedback, and realigned priorities.
  • Below is the list of services that were offered in order to succeed:
  • Software architecture
  • Software development
  • Project Management
  • Software delivery
  • Testing & QA

Platforms, Products and Deliverables

Balance App for iOS

Balance App for iWatch

  • Heart rate monitoring with Apple Healthkit

CI/CD

  • Github Workflows (Fastlane)

Project Management

  • Github Issues
  • Miro for collaborative design and brainstorming
  • Figma for awesome mockups
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