A team of computer science students has built a patient check-in app for three rural health clinics in the Ridgeline region, designed to work even when the clinic's internet goes down.

The app, created in Dr. Kenji Sato's Human-Centered Computing Lab in Innovation Commons, supports screen readers, large text and Spanish, and syncs records once a connection returns. Students tested every screen with clinic staff and patients before launch.

"Accessibility is not a feature you add at the end," Sato said. "Our students learned that by sitting in waiting rooms and watching how people actually use a tablet."

The lab is recruiting two more undergraduate researchers for spring.