# Guiding Hand

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Minh Nguyen](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/minhtuquyk)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/hehehehehee-dev/GuidingHand
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/qkLMDAfmR_0
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/2484

GuidingHand is a voice-first phone guide that helps an older adult complete a multi-step phone task herself, one step at a time, in Vietnamese.

The problem is narrow. The elder can see and tap, but does not know the sequence for a new task, for example sending a photo. Her family is far away and cannot see her screen on a phone call, so spoken guidance alone does not show her which button to tap. She gets stuck and stops, rather than asking again. In the story, my grandmother in Vietnam wants to share stories about her life with me in Bloomington, but she does not know the steps to send a photo or a text on her own.

GuidingHand works like this. She taps the Help bubble, then speaks her goal. The app rings the next button, reads one short instruction, and waits. She taps, swipes, or types herself. It does not tap, swipe, type, send, or confirm for her. If she taps the wrong thing, it continues from the new screen instead of restarting from Home. Before sending, it reads back both the recipient and the photo, and only then does she tap send herself. At a password, payment, or OTP screen, it stops, types nothing, and only shows a family call button that opens the dialer, it does not call on its own.

Most importantly, it lets grandma reach out to me herself, not just wait for me to call her. She sends the photo, she starts the connection, and over time it is designed to help her build intuition for the steps she repeats. It is a guide, not a replacement for family.

## More from Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon

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- [MuseNative](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/2487)

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