The Wellness Wheel

Amy Height wrote an excellent article explaining the wellness wheel and their categories here.

We treat the wellness wheel as different categories that can be affected by different types of activities. For a balanced day, a user will fill each category a similar amount. These needs can differ from person to person, but everyone requires some for of activity in each section. Lyv has users take a survey which determines things that the user would value or find important. The user also gets to manually set goals or aspirations that the AI would take into account.

For example, Exercising would fall under the Physical category , so exercising would fill in your ‘Physical’ bar on your Lyv Wheel represented by the Pink color. To complete a balanced day, a user would fill each bar of their wheel equally and to the fullest extent. Over exerting one area while ignoring others makes for an unbalanced wheel. You can picture your Lyv Wheel as a wagon wheel, if one or two spokes are longer than the others, it can make for a bumpier ride. If too many spokes are ignored, the wheel will not spin at all.

Lyv’s AI searches its database for activities or local events that could help fill different areas of a user’s Lyv Wheel and proposes them as ‘Recommended Activities’. If those activities are completed, users receive some Lyv credits that act as a form of an in-app currency that participating vendors could also accept in exchange for goods or services.

Prescribed Activities

Lyv can also be an excellent tool for therapists to use as a ‘Prescribed Activity’ for their patients. For example, a therapist could prescribe a walk in a specific park for 30 mins. The app would recognize when the user’s device was within the park’s coordinates and relay that information back to the therapist. Often therapists prescribe activities, but they rely on the patient to inform them of completed activities often a week or more after being prescribed/completed. We consider this effective in the same way that a patient could tell their doctor that their arm is injured. The doctor can then look at the arm and determine whether it warrants an x-ray to collect more data. Lyv’s Prescribed Activities are that X-Ray empowering therapists with quantifiable data.

These Prescribed Activities can be configured as specific or as vague as the therapist would like. For example there could be a checklist of activities that must be completed like “Say ‘hello’ to 3 people, Walk 1 Mile, Sit on a bench for 30 mins”. The therapist would receive these data points and use them as an extra tool to correlate with symptoms and other data to help diagnose and treat patients.