Mind Companion combines mobile technology and affective computing together with emotional literacy to create mobile solutions to help people to cope with mood disorders and depression. Track user's behaviors and activities automatically to minimize emotional overhead and use them as positive feedback and reinforcement. Capture biometry from wearable devices and send data to affective computing cloud to preempt any possible dangerous mood changes and then inform closed circle social network. Reflect mood using wearable devices to show people around the user about his/her mood.

1. combating
MOODS
A mobile solution for your emotional needs
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2. Adrian Hoe, MBCS
Founder, System Inventor
@hoeadrian
adrianhoe.com
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3. Something
AboutMind Companion
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4. Mobile
Technology
Affective
Computing
Emotional
Literacy
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5. Our
moodsimply explained
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6. a temporary state of feelings
usually triggered by a particular stimulus or event
Negative/Positive variance
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7. Key dimensions of
triggersfor our mood
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8. EmotiveSensory Cognitive
Social Event
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9. Unaddressed mood problems can lead to
severe mood disorders
such as
anxiety & depression
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10. The
PROBLEMwe wish to address
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11. people around the world are affected by depression
350,000,000
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12. people reported having an episode of depression in previous year
1 in 20
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13. $95Billion/year
Source: Greenberg, 2013
In U.S. alone
the economic loss (lost productivity & medical expenses) due to depression is
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14. a person dies by suicide somewhere in the world
EVERY 40 SECONDS
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15. Globally, suicide is the
Source: WHO, 2014
second
leading cause of death for people aged 15-29
Road crash
Suicide
HIV/AIDS
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16. The
barriersof early intervention
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17. Social stigma
Social isolation
Shame & embarrassment
Lack of public awareness
Ignorance of treatment availability
High treatment costs
Limited treatment options
Fragmented mental health services
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18. Our
solution
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19. ✓ Emotional journaling
✓ Self-awareness of mood states
✓ Affective computing
✓ Preemptive response to emotional downturns
✓ Exclusive social circle
✓ Emergency alert
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20. Use case 1
Workpressure
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22. Use case 2
Peerpressure
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25. The
framework
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26. Beautiful Mind
User
Family Friend Therapist
Closed circle network
Biometry
Mood log
Emergency alert
Preemptive response
Emergency alert
User’s mood status
Data storage
Affective computing
Wearable
device
Biometry
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27. Q&A
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