Boosting Buddy Conventional Agent for Improvement of Mental Health

Project Title

Boosting Buddy Conventional Agent for Improvement of Mental Health

Project Area of Specialization Artificial IntelligenceProject Summary

The project title is proposed as Boosting Buddy: Conversational Agent for Improvement of Mental Health. As this application will be used to cheer up the user's mood and cope up the negatives feelings.

Boosting Buddy is an AI-based chatbot that uses psychological techniques to provide user therapy. Pakistan has an alarming situation on mental health diseases, a report claims that depression affects 44percent of the entire population in Pakistan. Its prevalence is higher in women at 57.5percent and 25percent in men. In Pakistan, 50 million people are suffering from common mental disorders. Another disturbing fact is that there are only 750 trained psychiatrists in Pakistan which means there is one psychiatrist for every 10,000 patients suffering mental disorders which causes accessibility issues. If a patient manages to contact a therapist, s/he still has inconvenience in telling the therapist about the personal problems and psychic issues. The proposed system will be the implementation of AI, an automated system, which gets trained using patterns of inputs to give output to the user simultaneously. To enhance customer relationship management using ML and AI to offer 24/7 assistance to both users and therapists. 
Features:
Detect depression through PHQ-9 Depression Test Questionnaire
Generate text using Language Model and classify through sentimental analysis
User interactive chatbot and Recurrent Neural Network for mapping root words 
To provide the highly effective, fast, and efficient system of an AI-enabled, empathetic, text-based conversational mobile mental well-being app that will respond to user queries 24/7, will provide the recommended treatment to them, and make things easy for the users. 
To provide a text-based conversational mobile mental well-being app
To provide self-reported symptoms of depression.
To provide convenience for the people and help from the psychiatrist and therapist
To provide human-like behaviour while answering the questions using machine learning algorithms and techniques.

Project Objectives

The key objective of this project is to build a mental health smartphone application that can help to reduce depression and anxiety by using psychological techniques. As of today in this world, AI is being used in every field especially in mental health. It will also assist the psychiatrist and therapist and create a personal therapist virtual assistant who checks in every day with the patients at any time. 

• To provide a text-based conversational mobile mental well-being app

• To provide self-reported symptoms of depression.

• To provide convenience for the people and help from the psychiatrist and therapist

• To provide human-like behaviour while answering the questions using machine learning algorithms and techniques.

As the mental healthcare virtual agents will address user queries immediately, thus result from inactive user engagement.

Research Objective

• This study aims to develop a conversational agent by researching the existing system. In the development of this project, we will be using Natural language processing tool kits and some machine learning libraries. These two topics are the recent subject of research nowadays and have a huge importance in the research field.

• To create more opportunities for research in the areas of the practical application related to this study.

• There is a lot of potential in this project to work on it to make it generalize.

• To provide the building blocks for other researchers and the world to carry on working with more advancement and control.

Project Implementation Method Artificial Intelligence

Research Writing

Dataset Searching

Preprocessing

• dataset cleaning
• Stopwords removing
• Corpus
• Tokenization
• POS tagging
• Vectorization

Sentiment Analysis

Intent Classification

Local dataset collection

Development

Android Based Application In Java

Web API using Flask

Web Application using React.js

Deployment

Testing

Benefits of the Project

There are many problems that don’t allow the patients to get professional care or the therapies like the geographical, financial, and social issues but with the help of the mobile application, people who experience the slightest hint of mental illness can just download the application and get the proper and suitable environment to seek mental health consultancy. This application will be available 24/7 for every user. It will decrease the workload of mental health workers. Also, recommend scientifically proven therapies and activities for users to change negative behaviours.

This application will help users to diagnose mental health problems and provide treatment. Users' activities will be monitored regularly. The virtual assistant of this project will engage users automatically by starting a conversation. It will help the users to open up their feelings and thoughts with the help of Gifs, emoji and open-end questions. The project will be a real-time application so the personal data of the user will be encrypted and safe.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Android Based Application In Java

Web API using Flask

Web Application using React.js

Final Deliverable of the Project Software SystemCore Industry ITOther Industries Health Core Technology Artificial Intelligence(AI)Other TechnologiesSustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for PeopleRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	55000
Domain	Equipment	1	10000	10000
Stationary/Printing	Miscellaneous	4	2500	10000
Hosting on Google Playstore	Equipment	1	10000	10000
Web Hosting	Equipment	1	10000	10000
Marketing tools	Equipment	3	5000	15000