BestFriend is a web application targeted to help people suffering from stress and depression. Our chat-bot system communicates with our target audience keeping all the information confidential.
Inspiration: There is a struggle to schedule an appointment with a therapist during stress and depression due to the volume of people wanting to get the counseling service and complexity in contacting a therapist. Our goal is to make an instant service to help connect our target audience and be in touch with all the mentally struggling individuals who see for help.
What it does: Our website acts as an instant companion sending as much help as possible. Our chatbot learns to communicate with an increased number of databases and sends messages being a professional companion and acts as a listening buddy.
How we built it: We first made 3 phases of the project where the first phase was to build a twitter API, next was to build chatbot conversation with various entities and the third phase was to design the website and launch the website. Our plan evolved as changes had to be made due to the limitation in the time and the devices that we had.
Challenges we ran into: We wanted to have twitter API on our website to have the tweets on our website. We spent the majority of our time trying to make that possible, but until the last moment, we ran with few problems.
Accomplishments that we're proud of: A Running website that sends an instant message from chatbot to make a conversation with the depressed individuals to be a warm listener and to calm him/her down from the stress.
What we learned: Time management, Working under pressure, Making compromises, Teamwork, Not giving up.
What's next for BestFriend: We want to present this to our school's psychological and counseling center after improving some part of it so that we could apply our idea and see it creating a difference.
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