Client Rotman School of Management
Category UXR, UXD, Strategy
Year 2020
PROBLEM
Natural disasters kill on average 60,000 people per year globally, and the numbers will
increase when we look at the bigger picture with climate change and globalization.
The challenge was to provide immediate relief for those impacted by natural disasters.
Designers Silvia Garuti, Andrea Noble, Björg Flygenring,
Yasmine Abuzeid, Selina Tedesco, Brendan Raftery
SOLUTION
Softwares
Earshot democratizes information for both those impacted by a natural disaster, and for
the organizations and governments that serve them. The artificial intelligent chatbot named Quinn uses machine learning from every message and phone call to create an actionable database for governments and organizations to deliver better, faster, and more accurate aid.
