[23] - Mental Metrics

A tool that allows users to input mood and certain other aspects of their day, and tries to predict their future mood based on these factors - & gives suggestions on what they can do to feel better.

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Mentalmetrics : Helping you take life one day at a time! :

Inspiration

We wanted people to create something that allowed people to help track and manage their depression and see what potential stressors could be present in the coming day, and inform about self care and set up a healthy routine. Thus helping people take their lives day by day instead of feeling overwhelmed.

What it does

The application prompts users to input how their day was, tries to predict via the weather how difficult the upcoming day will be, and allows them to look back at patterns on a month by month basis.

Due to the time limitations of only 36 hours, we had to narrow our list down from the many things we wanted to do and monitor to warn the user about to just a couple of things that were deemed important. The main one being the day's weather. Not only people with Seasonal Affective Disorder, but people with anxiety and depression in general see a drop in their moods when it's cold, raining, or overcast. We monitor for that and remind people to take steps to practice self care and ensure that they stay healthy

Challenges we ran into

Not having enough usable data to create a predictive model, as we had originally intended. Instead we decided to settle on focusing on well established global factors that the majority of people are affected by.

A mismanaged dependency broke our app partway through the hackathon, setting us back several revisions. This caused us to have to rebuild parts of the application. This time around however, we went for a more consistent design and stronger back end and are happy with how it turned out.

What's next for Mental Metrics

We have plans to expand this out into a fully functioning application that, we hope, will be able to assist a lot of people through these dark times and give them the tools they need to practice self care and self love even when it is hardest.

We plan to expand the application out, and expand the scope of the website, moving to a new host that will allow for a dedicated back end, and moving from swift to react native so that we have more control over the final look and performance.

We also plan to start allowing users to track behavioral pattern along with their mood, such as exercise, eating patterns, sleep, and the various behaviors that go into self care and contribute to living a better and happier life.

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