GratitudeGuider: A Smart Positive Psychological Intervention System for Mental Wellbeing

Psychological research has confirmed that positive psychological intervention methods, such as gratitude journaling, hold promising potential for promoting mental wellbeing. However, when applied in daily practices, lacking of personalized guidance has often negatively damaged its efficacy and user engagement. This paper proposes a smart system named GratitudeGuider that leverages social network data as personalized resource to provide personalized gratitude journaling service for mental wellbeing. Taking social network data as the recorder of users' real-world life, GratitudeGuider facilitates users with comprehensive stress awareness and intelligent gratitude topic recommendation aligning with their real life experience for more friendly guidance. We implemented GratitudeGuider as a lightweight mobile application and show its superiority in real user study.