Mindfulness: A Mental Health Aid for University Students
Mental health challenges, which include strain and depression, are increasingly affecting university students globally. These problems now not only reduce students' instructional overall performance but also negatively affect their overall well-being. The “Mindfulness” application has evolved in reaction to those issues, offering a comprehensive and centralized virtual answer geared toward enhancing mood, facilitating rest, and improving the mental fitness of students coping with stress. This study outlines the layout and implementation of the “Mindfulness” app, emphasizing three main functionalities: emotion detection through a facial emotion popularity set of rules with a 91.4% accuracy charge, social media content analysis, character detection, and addressing identified troubles through the use of artificial intelligence. The app makes use of futuristic technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence along with YOLOv8, SpaCy, and other technologies to learn techniques to attain its supposed results. The number one goal of “mindfulness” is to actively come across and mitigate pressure and anxiety among university students. Rather than directly informing users of detected feelings, the app discreetly makes use of these records to provide tailor-made content material and interactions designed to enhance users’ moods. With future developments and upgrades, “Mindfulness” has the ability to increase its capabilities to go beyond college students, presenting assistance to a wider populace and contributing to the overall development of mental well-being.
Authors
- Rasika Jayasekara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5959-2723)
- M. P. A. W. Gamage (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6907-0760)
- Kevin Wijesuriya
- Samanthi Siriwardana
- Pasindu Dissanayaka
Institutions
- Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (LK)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2024-12-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icac64487.2024.10851192
- Primary Topic
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00