| CPC G06Q 50/2057 (2013.01) [G06Q 50/2053 (2013.01); G09B 5/14 (2013.01); H04L 67/535 (2022.05)] | 15 Claims |
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1. A computer-implemented method for mentoring students for entry into a healthcare profession, comprising:
a) providing a smartphone mobile platform application (“the app”) for exchanging information (“the data”) between one or more individual student users using respective one or more remote user devices communicatively coupled through a network connection, and one or more server information processing systems (“the server”);
b) persisting the data in one or more databases (“the database”) accessible by the server, the data being stored in one or more databases, the data being accessible using the app so that the data can be updated in real time through a graphical user interface of the app running on the respective one or more remote user devices;
c) the app providing a task interface that (i) displays, at each particular remote user device associated with a student user selected from the one or more individual student users, predefined tasks, which are persisted in the database, to be completed by the student user and that are relevant to entry into the healthcare profession, and (ii) displays, at the particular remote user device, a check-off interface, with which the student user can indicate completion of predefined tasks, the checked-off state of tasks being persisted in the database, the task information forming part of the data;
d) the app providing a pathway interface that (i) displays, at a particular remote user device associated with a student user selected from the one or more individual student users, a curvilinear pathway which includes markings corresponding to tasks remaining to be completed and checked-off in the check-off interface by the student user, the markings are displayed spaced apart along the curvilinear pathway and filling the curvilinear pathway from a marking that corresponds to a next task to be completed to a marking in the curvilinear pathway indicating completion and check-off of all tasks in the check-off interface, and (ii) displays, at the particular remote user device, a user's completion status icon displayed in close proximity to at least one of 1) a marking that corresponds to a next task to be completed, or 2) a marking in the curvilinear pathway indicating completion and check-off of all tasks;
e) detecting, at the check-off interface on a remote user device, an individual student user selecting one or more tasks and thereby changing the checked-off state of each selected task to either: 1) checked-off and completed or 2) un-checked and not completed, and in response the remote user device transmitting one or more messages to the server, which based on receiving the one or more messages updating the change of the checked-off state of the one or more tasks in the task information forming part of the data of the one or more tasks persisted in the database by the server; and
f) the server, based on the updating the change of the checked-off state of the one or more tasks in the data, transmitting a message to the remote user device, which based on receiving the server transmitted message and displaying the pathway interface, the remote user device gamifying the displayed pathway interface as follows:
i) animatedly moving the user's completion status icon forward along the displayed curvilinear pathway a number of markings equal to a net positive difference, or
ii) animatedly moving the user's completion status icon backward along the displayed curvilinear pathway a number of markings equal to a net negative difference, between a first number of the one or more selected tasks having been changed state to checked-off and completed and a second number of the one or more selected tasks having been changed state to un-checked and not completed.
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