New Delhi (India), 31st May 2023: Every year, Apple hosts the Swift Student Challenge before their annual developer conference, WWDC. Asmi Jain, 20, is one of this year’s winners.
Jain, an undergraduate student at Medi-Caps University in Indore, learned that her friend’s uncle needed brain surgery. The procedure resulted in ocular misalignment and facial paralysis.
Jain was inspired by her friend’s uncle’s condition to design an app playground that can track a user’s eye movements while they try to follow a ball travelling across the screen. The objective of the playground is to assist train the eye muscles. Jain expects that it will be useful to persons suffering from a variety of eye ailments and traumas.
Commenting on her app the 20-year old says, “It was important for me to create an app playground that could positively impact the lives of people like him.”
She added, “My next goal is to get feedback and make sure it’s effective and user-friendly, and then release it on the App Store. I hope it can one day serve as a therapy tool that people like my friend’s uncle can use at their own pace.”
The 20-year-old says her motivation for coding stems from the desire to solve challenges in the healthcare industry. It all began with the many years she volunteered to aid those around her. She and a few other students started a forum at her university so that their classmates could get help with difficult coding challenges.
She said, “When you feel as though you’re part of something bigger, it motivates you and drives you to do better. Coding lets me create things that help my friends and my community. And it gives me a sense of independence that is very empowering.”
