Alexicon

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  Alexicon provides a lexicon for expressing your emotions.

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  10% of people experience some form of alexithymia.

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  Alexicon can be used by anyone, but is tailor-made for people who have difficulty identifying emotions.

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  Alexicon provides a variety of options.

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  Users can customize which emotions they want to track for added expression.

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  Users can log each other's emotions using a perception-based system.

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  Alexicon uses a variety of therapeutic tools like the CBT Emotion Wheel.

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  Add friends to your network and support each other.

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  Alexicon compares self-reported statistics to friend-reported statistics to increase understanding and confidence in users' emotions.

Inspiration

Many neurodivergent people or people who struggle with mental health issues use mood tracking apps as a therapeutic tool. However, most mood tracking apps fail to account for alexithymia -- the struggle that many neurodivergent people face in identifying and expressing their emotions. Alexicon aims to fix this by providing a mood tracking app that allows for simplicity and flexibility in expressing emotions.

What it does

Alexicon provides a variety of options to make it easier for people to log unclear emotions. It uses cognitive and dialectical behavioral tools such as diary cards and the CBT emotion wheel. Most importantly, it has a feature that lets friends log perceived emotions for you, both to take the pressure of logging off of one individual person and to help users understand how they perceive their emotions vs. how others perceive them.

How we built it

I used Android Studio, Java, and XML Coding. This was the first time I used Android Sharesheet for communication between devices.

Challenges we ran into

The logistics of the challenge were difficult-- building a mood tracker for people who have trouble tracking their moods-- but it was a space in the market that needed to be filled.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Making an app that I would use and that I believe needed to be made, with input from other people in my community for what features I ended up adding.

What we learned

I learned a lot about I/O and file/data sharing in Java and in mobile development, as well as how to make a startup business out of something sensitive like health.

What's next for Alexicon

I'd like to add new features such as AI detection, expand on existing features such as diary cards, different views, and more descriptive stats for users, and to expand servers using Firebase or SQL instead of sharesheet.

Built With

• android-studio
• java