The client is a prescription digital medicine company combining scientific and clinical rigor with the ingenuity of the tech industry to reinvent medicine.
The Challenge
Digital Therapeutics treats cognitive disorders with gamified therapy that helps individuals navigate behavioral impairments such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A US pharma company develops video games to help patients with cognitive disorders practice responding to real-life situations, potentially improving concentration, decision-making, and thinking.
The client used simulated data from bots to test the video game backend, but it wasn’t accurate. Generating 3D data from 2D images was complicated but necessary for an immersive patient experience and better therapy results.
The client turned to Persistent, for its rich data science and machine learning capabilities and the product engineering DNA to help accelerate the testing in line with real-world scenarios.
The Solution
Persistent deployed Google Cloud’s Vision AI to superimpose a bot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) on top of the existing bots. This allowed us to create a visually immersive experience that emulates actual gameplay, generating valuable and actionable data, not simulated ones.
We used JSON to gather data from game frames and developed ML models to improve bot efficiency. We also built an entire operational reporting backend that seamlessly ingested data from multiple sources and placed it into a centralized data hub, which we also developed. This helped us create custom reports for functional departments such as marketing and finance.
The Outcome
With AI and ML-backed super bot, and by successfully generating the 3D data points from 2D images, we were able to:
- Automate 50,000 hours of bot testing, a task that would have been impossible manually.
- Test coverage for 100s of hours of gameplay.
