Health Lab

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Inspiration

Our daily lives are ridden with technology. Most of the times, these technology use algorithms in which the goal is to increase social media usage. This can create a lot of problems such as social media addiction and mental health problem. As teens can spend up to 9 hours with their social media, and 210 million people worldwide are suffering from social media and internet addiction (Longstreet, Phil).

What it does

Health Lab is a chrome extension that provides you with options of which Youtube section you want to hide. Two of these sections are the Youtube home page and Youtube recommended page. Health Lab ensures that you can enjoy watching Youtube videos safely.

How I built it

Health Lab is built using HTML and CSS to build the UI for the pop up. I also uses Javascript to create the logic of Health Lab. A lot of scripting and DOM is used when making Health Lab.

Challenges I ran into

Connecting from the pop-up page to the main page definitely is a problem since both the pop-up page and the main page have different (not-overlapping) scope. The other challenge is usually when we close a pop-up page, all of its information is not stored, this provides a challenge because I want to save information from the pop-up page. These challenges are amplified as this is the first time I am building a chrome extension.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am proud of being able to make software that I can and will use myself, and being able to build a finished product despite of my chrome extension building experience.

What I learned

I learned a lot about how to build chrome extension, using DOM, and scripting.

What's next for Health Lab

The next for Health Lab is to use natural language processing create another option where users can get a tailored recommendation that is strictly related with the video being watched instead of hiding the entire recommendation.