Inspiration
Mental Health is a real problem, but often a taboo, which sometimes causes it not to be addressed the best way. With our chrome extension, we aim not only to create awareness, but to help those that need it most.
What it does
Animo is your friend that always checks up on your when in need. Animo will poke you from time to time to see how you are doing. It will ask you questions depending on your mood and use sentiment analysis to adequately respond to them. Sometimes it will respond with a joke, sometimes with a motivational speech, depending on the situation. The main goal of Animo is to improve your mental health by either reinforcing good moods, or by lending out a helping hand when in a bad one.
How we built it
Animo is a chrome extension comprised of two different moving parts. One is the popup window that is activated by clicking the icon on the top right hand side of the browser. It opens up a menu that allows the user to fill in their name and how often they would like to be poked. The sentiment analysis uses indico.io in order to determine the emotion of the message sent to Animo
Challenges we ran into
We had a very tough time learning some of the new technologies
Accomplishments that we're proud of
As a team of two, and only a limited amount of time, we were able to tackle a very serious issues and hopefully eventually morph into into something that will continually help people.
What we learned
That even with limited time and people, we are able to accomplish a lot.
What's next for Animo
Even though we are already giving immediate feedback to users on their input, we also want them to be able to go back to them in a future and visualize their progress over time. In order to do this, we will expand our database to incorporate even more user details, which will help in our different analyses using NLP.
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