“If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” - Russell Wilson

Lantern will bright up your mind and give you a good start.

What it does :

It is a web application which helps people to get rid of mental health issues by engaging themin some fun and peaceful activities leadingto make them happy and peaceful. We have a mixture of games , creative activities, etc. which helps the user to get diverted from their worst situations goin on. We have currently 6 different type of activities for our web application named "Lantern":

  • Color Game : A game will trick your mind to keep your focus towards game and hence keeping your mind away from unhealthy thoughts .
  • Smart Mental Chatbot : You can have a conversation with this chat bot like your own friend and it will give you answers to your problems in the best way possible. The answers to questions are written by a professional.
  • Journal Entry : In this component you can write about your day and relieve your stress, you can also view your previous writings in the journal.
  • Voice based Pacman Game : we have specially designed this game for People with disabilities like the person who can’t use their had properly, they can play the game with their voice and enjoy it .
  • Relaxation Page : When you are stressed , Meditation is the best thing to do and hence here we provide you with peaceful environment to meditate with soft background song of nature for your joyful experience.
  • Music Recommender : In this module we will suggest some good music straight from Spotify to cheer up your mood .

How we built it

  • HTML: for adding text, blocks, etc. and some frontend work
  • CSS: For giving style to the web app
  • Javascript: for backend work with storing things and some authentication work as well
  • Python: for development of music recommender
  • Spotify API: for music recommender web app
  • Linode: for deployment of the web app

Challenges we ran into

  • At first we thought about having a mental health chat bot which was great idea but it was not working correctly in the last moment so we switched to having a friendly chatbot.

What's next for Lantern

We would love to add some more features as soon as we enhance our knowledge and work more on it. We will also try to bring up some appointments feature with Mental Health Specialists, etc...

Accomplishments we are proud of :

Doing Team work and completing the project in time and learning new things.

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