Inspiration
As we have seen different mental health issues, including insomnia, anxiety, having too much pressure, have been deteriorating these years along with the existence of COVID-19, we hope to provide an integrated platform, SciKick, for people to relieve themselves or seek help in diversified ways to prevent themselves going into the serious vicious cycle of worsening mental health.
What it does
(can check out our pitch video) Basically, this is an integrated mobile application for managing your mental health status. Our application is rich in features as we have implemented lots of diversified functions to tackle different mental health issues.
Firstly, our homepage has two sections for users to select their daily mood and sleep quality. These have corresponded to another feature, which is "Inspiration". These data will be recorded into firebase at the end of the day, and these records can be viewed on the "Inspiration" page. On the page, you can select "Sleep Quality" and "Mood Board". In these two subpages, you can view the corresponding dashboard, professional tips and exercises. For the dashboard, these are the data dashboard for you to keep track of your own sleeping quality and mood. For the professional tips, they are external articles that help you have a better sleeping quality and better mood. Then for the exercises, there are exercises that help you fall asleep more easily, meditation with sound guidance as well as exercises that make you happier with upbeat background music!
Secondly, we have a "Consultants" page, in which users can chat with our professional psychiatrists and amateur consultants for advice and suggestions, or just simply find someone to talk to!
The third feature that we have implemented is "Journal" page. In the page, users can write down their thoughts and moments. They can view, edit and delete the journals afterward. This feature is just like a diary for users!
How we built it
We used React Native and Firebase.
Challenges we ran into
Time constraint is our biggest enemy. We do not have enough time to build the complete app. Very sadly, our chatting function is only supporting pure-text now. In the future, we hope we can fully support the stickers, voice recording and other media.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We have done a lot during these 24 hours! We are very proud of ourselves that during such short amount of time we can complete all these tasks! The greatest accomplishment that we are proud of is of course our project idea, as we really believe that our application would be useful to solve all the problems we are targeting.
What we learned
A lot a lot! For me (Karen), it's just my second time using React Native, and it is very challenging for me to do this in 24 hours! However, during the process, we have learnt a lot technical skills. Not only that, we have also learnt a lot regarding different mental health issues such as anxiety and insomnia!
What's next for SciKick
There's a lot more we can do, including the bugs we need to fix :'), as well as future extensions such as support more media for chatting functions, or improve the UIUX by implementing some smooth animations. We wish to include more exercises and generate random tips for users as well!
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