DIALOG
ZISHAN LIAO & YURUN OUYANG & YASEMIN DIRIK OCAD 3RD YEAR PROJECT
What is the situation the object exist in?
With the continued advancement of the internet and related technologies, anxiety may become a ubiquitous phenomenon by 2040. So how to ensure a better mental state of life, a better learning and working environment, and be aware of the times that you should slow down the pace? This will be a major focus in the future society.
What object is？
Dialog is a card sized smart device that can be attached to anything people carry with them daily. It is equipped with a matte textured monochrome screen, a built in speaker and mic, sensors, battery and Bluetooth capabilities.
What does it do?
Anxiety could be tracked and monitored through an innovative approach similar to a credit score system. This method would involve collecting the user's voice data on a daily basis to set a personalized baseline, analyzing the tone of voice and choice of words, utilizing and compare this information with the baseline voice to determine the user's anxiety level, assign an appropriate score, and keep in track of the changes in anxiety level.
Who is using it?
Dialog is accessible and helpful to the majority of the society. Specifically:
- People diagnosed with anxiety
- Social media users
- Students
- Employees and bosses
What are they using it for?
Using Dialog to get an anxiety scores can help them better understanding their anxiety levels and allow both workplaces, educational institutions and healthcare to identify and provide additional support to those in need, ultimately leading to improved mental health and well-being for society as a whole.
Why prople using it as this way?
Dialog is being seen as a device that is accurate, helpful, and beneficial to those dealing with anxiety or worried about symptoms returning after recovering. And to those who are currently not dealing with anxiety, Dialog is being used by them to monitor, reflect, and ensure their mental health in this fast-paced and stressful lifestyles.
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Anxiety being unquantifiable, hugely depends and diagnosed from objective feelings or subjective opinions, lack of attention, support, and beneficial policies from workplace, institutes, healthcare and government.
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Quantifiable and accurate personalized diagnosis and tracking of anxiety achieved with daily info-gathering, feedback, and artificial intelligent data extraction and processing. Proper attention will result in precise, responsive, and effective support from society to those who are dealing with anxiety.
WHERE PEOPLE CAN GET THE DIALOG IN THE FUTURE?
Dialog can both be provided by the government/company/school to those who are already dealing with anxiety or are more vulnerable to anxiety or be purchased anywhere (just like OTC medications) without a prescription. Companies are interested in providing their employees with Dialog as an amenity, to let them better determined when they should take a rest, eventually boosting the productivity as a result