TalkTo.Me

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  Reflection page

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  Achievements

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  Calendar overview

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  Chat

Inspiration

Based on the conversations with the mental health mentors, we've found that:

• Students are unaware that their symptoms may require help.
• Students don't know how to start a conversation about their mental health.
• Students may find it difficult/embarrassing to reach out for help.

What it does

We built an emotional diary app that allows students to log positive, negative, and internal thoughts on a daily basis. We focused on ensuring our app was easy to use, and designed it in a way so that it will be easy to receive input from a web app, email, or text message. These input logs are stored in a calendar and analyzed to create a mental heath profile of the student. To solidify these profiles, the system will ask prescreened questions based on their profile and input, analyze app usage, and review their social media posts.

The student profile is automatically monitored an in the event the student's profile is considered risky, a conversation via a in-app chat is started with a Wellness Education Centre representative. During this conversation, the student can choose to share their calendar of logs with the representative. They have the option to censor specific words, which will prevent the representative from seeing any logs containing that word.

How I built it

We built it using a bootstrap front-end that talks to a slim api backend. The student profiles are built using a tree structure of keywords in the log messages. The student profile is evaluated using a serialized version of the tree, and it's likeness to other high-risk profiles previously identified by professionals.

Challenges I ran into

We are very weak front-end developers, and struggled a lot with the look and feel of the app.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We learned a lot about front-end code, and developed (in our opinion) a beautiful app. Additionally, the student profile algorithm is quite novel, and we're happy with our design.

What I learned

We learned a lot about mental health, during our research to establish example profiles, and finding appropriate questions that we can ask the student to further build out their profile.

What's next for TalkTo.Me

We want to continue developing it, so we can launch it for public use.

Built With

• bootstrap
• d3cloud
• fullcalendar
• jquery
• jquery-notebook
• mysql
• php
• slim