reConsiderate - Gives user a second chance

DubHacks2016!!

Coming into DubHacks and meeting new developers with different skill sets was a great experience for all of us. After getting set up we decided to take the endeavor of online harassment. We took this opportunity to learn new technologies. No one in our group was fluent with JavaScript, but with enough caffeine and motivation (and google) we were able to get a proof of concept prototype up and running.

Purpose

ReConsiderate is a Google Extension that aimed to reduce online harassment.

ReConsiderate analyzes text that user input (via email, social media, etc) and when the message seems to carry a negative connotation toward others, a message will pop up to remind the user to reflect on the meaning of the message and whether this is the message that they would like to be delivered.

Google Cloud Natural Language API is used to evaluate the structure and meaning of the text that user inputted and it will provide a sentiment score between the range of -1.0 and 1.0.

Sentiment score near the -1.0 range indicates text that may deliver negative (harassment, hurtful, harmful, etc.) feelings toward their audience while sentiment score near the 1.0 range reflects texts that create positive (excitement, joy, etc.) meanings.

When ReConsiderate detects texts with sentiment score near -1.0, it will create an alert (via message) for the user to confirm whether this is the type of message that they would like to be delivered.

ReConsiderate acts as a mediator by delivering positives notes that will allow the user to reflect on the text that was inputted. Overtime, this will hopefully change the way user interacts via social media as ReConsiderate is perpetually running in the background, analyzing the text that user inputted and moreover providing a feedback based on sentiment scores in hope of reducing the amount of cyber harassment that is happening.

Team Members

Our team is comprised of:

@midoriww - UWB Software Engineering Student (Midori Williams)
@jwcruz8482 - UW Computer Engineering Student (Jeremy Cruz)
@beckychan92 - UC Berkeley (Becky Chan)
@Azoni - UWT Student (Charlton Smith)
@NeelMohapatra - UWT Student (Swojit Mohapatra)

Technologies

Google Cloud Natural Language API

Chrome Extension Icon

Built With

css
google-cloud-natural-language-api
html
javascript
python

Submitted to

DubHacks 2016

Created by

I focused on the UX component and write-up component for reConsiderate. This is my first time working with front-end.

Private user
Nocturnal back-end development
First time doing any sort of back end development, dove into it for a long night. Wrote the test API and chat socketio server in python. Deployed the app with flask.

Charlton Smith
Engineer & Co-Founder of Oli
I worked with Swojit and Jeremy on finding a javascript solution for tracking cursor events while typing to send typed text to the google cloud for analyzation. We also created a logic based, cursor following, image popup which responds to the value returned by google cloud. This was a challenging process using all new skills for everyone on the team. In the end, we had some issues with google's cloud services, but I'm proud of what I learned.

Midori Williams
I worked on developing the front end for the google chrome extension. This was my first time using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and chrome extensions. This is my first hackathon, and I learned a lot about front end development and collaborating in a group.

Jeremy Cruz
Swojit Mohapatra