Relaxa

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Inspiration

Working from home became the new normal since the outbreak of Covid-19. Working from home makes it harder to separate work and relaxation environment (i.e. home), in addition to this the recession may add pressure to the employees. All of this may lead to higher level of anxiety, stress, zoom fatigue and exhaustion. Having distinct spaces often helps switching off from from work [1]

A report showed that many of us are working harder and longer hours, and 69% of US employees experience work-from-home burnout symptoms, which not only affect productivity, but also the health of the employees.

In light of this, we are building an app to help improving the overall mental health of employees working from home via facial recognition, and send out "take a break" alerts and reminders.

Ideally, the app would be integrated into video conferencing tools for the natural capturing of facial images.

[1] "How to deal with a year of accumulated burnout from working at home" by Stephen Khan

What it does

The web app obtains consent from the users to turn on their camera, capture an image for emotion analysis, and return the results.

How we built it

UI design using Figma
Front-end development using react
Back-end development using Express and MongoDB

Challenges we ran into

Time crunch was a challenge. Our team was working on another idea which turned out to be not the best solution to the problem, we then switch to the current idea.