Spark was initially formed as an idea in response to a firsthand experience of cancer in the family.

 

Having been a witness to the physically and psychologically degenerative capabilities of cancer, as well as the multiple emotional upheavals it induced within the patient and those who were close to him, the idea was an opportunity to provide a leeway to combat the sickness from taking over my little brother. 

We realized that there were situations of depression and hopelessness that people like him were experiencing everywhere, and that these were largely due to the complete upheaval that cancer has caused in their lives--more specifically, the bewilderment that they are in circumstances beyond their control and that they no longer have a firm hold of their lives.

Over the course of the year, this thesis was formed as an attempt to change that situation.

The Mood Updates first asks how the user is feeling today.

He will choose his current mood from a variety of emoticons provided and has the option of adding a caption as a quick explanation for his mood. He also has the option of adding his current location.

The Symptoms enables the user to choose a symptom he is currently feeling, for example nausea, and input the symptom at that certain time and date. He can customize his own symptom if it is not included in the list.

The Severity Bar gives lets him rate the severity of his current symptom in four levels:

No Pain, Mild, Distressing, and Excruciating.

The Weight feature enables the user to record his current weight in pounds. In his succeeding logs the user will see how often his weight fluctuates in gaining or losing pounds as each of his entries are saved and and displayed from the most current entry to his earliest.

The Track feature enables the user to have a visual layout of his progress or regress in entries on his mood updates, his sympptoms, and his weight.
It records all his log entries in the three functions of the Health Log feature and lays it out in an efficient and easily understandable form.