Youth Action Challenge Season 2 Team

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Problem Statement

Currently, there is a tendency to focus on counselling when it comes to mental support. However, 91% of youth surveyed by Leaping Frog prefer anonymous texting when seeking help compared to face to face and phone conversations. How can we instead

Project Description

Leaping Frog hopes to develop Blurple, a peer-to-peer cognitive reappraisal platform which aims to help users feel better by reframing their negative thoughts into positive ones. Users can share their negativ

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Fei

2021-01-23 17:26:21

AI has less of the human touch to it and usually the other person has to be able to guess the response that the user wants to be able to relieve their stress and AI does not have the EQ skills for now

Rachel Chan

2021-01-23 17:05:52

Does your team have the relevant mental health expertise and AI development background to successfully execute on this? I would imagine that at first it would require a lot of human input, and it’s always difficult for an AI chatbot to understand the nuan

elinor

2021-01-22 12:50:11

i think the idea is wonderful but i do have some concerns about implementation. it would be really important to ensure that the therapies administered are suitable for the particular individual's context - to ensure this, therapists often (and should) tak

Amelia

2021-01-22 07:15:20

It is very sensitive how you handle human emotions, and a chatbot may be too simple to detect the tonality and emotions from the conversations. Or you can, but not until you have collected a ton of data....... This requires a long cycle of data collection

Wei

2021-01-21 15:02:40

The team should engage the advice and support of a mental health professional to guide them in the development of Maria. Could they partner with an organization like Samaritans of Singapore who runs a 24hour crisis hotline? The chats in the crisis hotline

Wei

2021-01-21 15:02:39

Wei

2021-01-21 14:09:10

Sounds like a good idea on paper but I question the ability of a chatbot to replace the human connection. Half the time siri & google assistant tells me that they do not understand my request - if this happens to someone who is already upset or depressed,

Jia Ying

2021-01-02 17:26:12

Chatbot is an interesting concept but i believe that for a sensitive issue like discussing mental health, we should not leave it to robots as they might just make things worse. Sometimes things are misinterpreted by chatbots and I am not confident that th

wendy

2020-12-28 16:03:40

yes, you need to state clearly, how is our data being used? especially names and confidentiality

Problem Statement

How can we instead empower youth to take charge of their own mental health?

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Would you feel comfortable talking about your problems to a robot?

Do you want to be able to talk about your problems when you’re having a bad day, or do you prefer to be left alone?

Would transparency on how your data is used be a factor in your usage of this chatbot?

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How can we instead empower youth to take charge of their own mental health?

Leaping Frog

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Project Description

THREE QUESTIONS

Would you feel comfortable talking about your problems to a robot?

Do you want to be able to talk about your problems when you’re having a bad day, or do you prefer to be left alone?

Would transparency on how your data is used be a factor in your usage of this chatbot?

Any further feedback on how to improve the project?

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