CalmSpace

Inspiration

Mental health issues are very common nowadays. When our emotions invade us, we can't properly think or react, or we do things that may worsen our thoughts. That's why we created CalmSpace, as a way to help and organize our minds; to make it properly think about the emotions we are feeling at the moment and help relieve them in the worse moments.

What it does

We offer a couple of common unhealthy feelings or emotions, and multiple interactive and short methods to deal with each case. The user is guided through short steps that will help organize their thoughts and help relieve their emotions. At the end of the session, we provide additional personalized tips and recommendations based on the user inputs.

How we built it

We use Creao, one of the sponsors, and the help of AI to do this project. Then we tweak some important aspects of both the frontend and backend for the app to work properly.

Challenges we ran into

We all three are Computer Science Majors, so we don't have much experience in mental health issues and emotions, other than personal experiences. The biggest challenge we ran into was doing the research of the techniques and relieving methods we were going to use in the app.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of this initial prototype we created.

What we learned

We learned a lot about mental health; how the brain works, how our emotions affect our thoughts and daily lives, and how they may be controlled using simple methods like writing or drawing.

What's next for CalmSpace

We want firstly to add more emotions/feelings, more methods, more features so the users can interact even more with the app. And, of course do a more in-depth research about mental health and how we can adjust our methods in the app.