Final Project Idea

04 Nov 2020

Overview

Problem: Student mental health in higher education has been an increasing concern. The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected everybody, causing a lot of pressure, uneasiness, despondency, and inner issues for the understudies alongside their companions and their family.

Solution: I propose to create a mental health chat bot that can give students ease and comfort. Making therapy and relief accessible to all. It will be a safe space where people can openly express themselves without fear of judgment.

Approach

Basically this app will help students cope with distressing issues they are facing. Students will use the bot to vent/talk about their day. The main landing page of the app will contain general information about the chat bot and mental health resources link. How the bot would work would be:

The bot will prompt a topic for conversation.
- Ex: “ Pineapple on Pizza? Yay! Or Nay?
Using follow-ups to facilitate responses.
- The chat bot will identify keywords students use to suggest articles or videos on how to help comfort the student better.

Some mockup pages include:

Landing page
Talk to Bot Page
User home page
FAQ page
Admin home page
User profile page

Use case ideas

New user goes to landing page, logs in, gets home page, sets up profile.
The Admin goes to landing page, logs in, gets home page, can edits site and update chatbot.
User goes to landing page, logs in, get to home page and goes FAQ to requests ways to improve bot.
User goes to landing page, logs in, gets to home page, go to Talk to Bot Page can start chat with bot.

More Advanced Ideas

I am unsure how this can be implemented but down below is ideas I hope can improve the app:

Direct access to professionals that can assist student’s mental state
- It be cool with this could somehow connect with UH’s counseling center
Somehow per user have old messages saved. So user can look back at them.
Daily check in
- Ex: Mood Tracker, but there can be a calender will user can see logged mood.