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Inspiration ✨
Seeing friends' lives being ruined through unhealthy attachment to video games. Struggling with regulating your emotions properly is one of the biggest negative effects of video games.
What it does 🍎
YourHP is a webapp/discord bot designed to improve the mental health of gamers. By using ML and AI, when specific emotion spikes are detected, voice recordings are queued accordingly. When the sensor detects anger, calming reassurance is played. When happy, encouragement is given, to keep it up, etc.
The discord bot is an additional fun feature that sends messages with the same intention to improve mental health. It sends advice, motivation, and gifs when commands are sent by users.
How we built it 🔧
Our entire web app is made using Javascript, CSS, and HTML. For our facial emotion detection, we used a javascript library built using TensorFlow API called FaceApi.js. Emotions are detected by what patterns can be found on the face such as eyebrow direction, mouth shape, and head tilt. We used their probability value to determine the emotional level and played voice lines accordingly.
The timer is a simple build that alerts users when they should take breaks from gaming and sends sound clips when the timer is up. It uses Javascript, CSS, and HTML.
Challenges we ran into 🚧
Capturing images in JavaScript, making the discord bot, and hosting on GitHub pages, were all challenges we faced. We were constantly thinking of more ideas as we built our original project which led us to face time limitations and was not able to produce some of the more unique features to our webapp. This project was also difficult as we were fairly new to a lot of the tools we used. Before this Hackathon, we didn't know much about tensorflow, domain names, and discord bots.
Accomplishments that we're proud of 🏆
We're proud to have finished this product to the best of our abilities. We were able to make the most out of our circumstances and adapt to our skills when obstacles were faced. Despite being sleep deprived, we still managed to persevere and almost kept up with our planned schedule.
What we learned 🧠
We learned many priceless lessons, about new technology, teamwork, and dedication. Most importantly, we learned about failure, and redirection. Throughout the last few days, we were humbled and pushed to our limits. Many of our ideas were ambitious and unsuccessful, allowing us to be redirected into new doors and opening our minds to other possibilities that worked better.
Future ⏭️
YourHP will continue to develop on our search for a new way to combat mental health caused by video games. Technological improvements to our systems such as speech to text can also greatly raise the efficiency of our product and towards reaching our goals!
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