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About

Fred is an Android application and an android (noun) companion built for the ups and downs of your mental health. Sign up, log in, and we'll introduce you to our amphibian mascot, Fred the Friendly Frog, whose passion is boosting your morale. Check out your profile page when you get a chance—you can select your current mood and Fred will offer insight on your mental health, along with tips on how to improve it.

Inspiration

Mental health is important, especially now. With the pandemic and quarantine, things have piled up on us and can be stressful at times. A lot of tragedies can be avoided with better care for mental health. Everybody talks about mental health and the issues one can face. Anxiety, stress, and depression are heavy words to use; alas, you never know you are suffering through such unless you talk to someone. Not everybody is ready to listen to you, or perhaps you feel like you might disturb the ones you trust, which ultimately builds further mental issues. To break this cycle we decided to come up with a solution which can help you deviate your thoughts towards a brighter and optimistic side of the ecosystem, so to speak!

Features

Having known the challenges, we decided to come with an optimal solution, a mental health chatbot accessible through web, mobile and via phone.

The chatbot named Fred is trained to understand the user and provide basic self assessments.
From offering articles and resources to recommending exercises and relaxation techniques, Fred will do everything possible to better your thoughts directly affecting your mental health.
There’s an emergency feature in the app that provides the user various mental health hotlines if the need arises.

Challenges we faced:

Integrating the chatbot to the website and application was a hassle but ultimately, via providing embedded WebView access within the application, we solved it. Deciding on the architecture of the app was an initial hassle, but nonetheless we ultimately we decided to go with Firebase and Dialogflow which afforded us multitudes of technical benefits.

Where are we headed next with Fred?

Our basic version aims to solve many underlying issues revolving around mental health. Digging deep with have tried to train the chatbot to learn the CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) patterns which primarily psychologists around the world use. Furthermore we plan to integrate it with the Google Fit API, thereby providing the statistics of user physical activity. The statistics will be helpful to determine early psychological diagnoses for our users. Basic movements are necessary for humans. If we try to gauge them we may see a pattern revolving around a person showing signs of mental issues, for which we'd then alert the bot, notifying the user to move or elicit change in their environment.

# Feeling Excited? Go visit Fred or simply call him 📞 +16788133709. HackGT squad? Try sliding into @Fred's direct messages. He doesn't bite. This pandemic has been tough on all of us. We hope this app can make it a little easier to manage our mental health during this difficult time.

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I'm in my second year at Carleton College. Worked on Kotlin WebView, miscellaneous configurations, and our video. Immensely humbled by my team.

Edward Lee
En route from Hello World to changing it
I worked on the architecture of connections and technologies to be involved also the user flow throughout the app. Developing few prototypes and mocks. Kudos to the team!

Rutvik J
Ecosystem & Analysis
I worked on the android development. Setting up the page navigation and local functionalities was a large part of my role. This experience really pushed me out of my shell as a beginner to android.

Pujith Kachana
I'm a 1st year CS major at GaTech. I created intents and responses within Dialogflow, so that the user can have an interactive conversation with Fred, the chatbot. I also coded the html and css for Fred's website.

Won Yang