In every Hackathon, we witness people working around the clock to develop on an idea that’s unprecedented in all respects.
Hackmotion, an app developed during the Hackathon conducted by WACHacks in association with HackerEarth, is a breathtaking manifestation of the same.
Read on to know more about this app.
What is Hackmotion?
Hackmotion is an app that solves problems related to stress. It allows users to talk and have a friendly conversation with their phone. Along with this, it tracks users’ emotions and conversations in a journal format.
This app identifies the emotions that students commonly experience. It is designed to help them improve their social well-being, helping them be expressive through journaling.
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Functionality
When the app is opened, the users are introduced to a friendly UI where they get an option to take a picture. Users can click on the camera icon to get the picture clicked. The phone processes this image using Microsoft Face API. Depending on the image, two types of APIs are then called:
The app talks to the user in a way that they feel like they are talking to a real person. All the conversations and the objects detected by Clarifai get recorded in the journaling section of the app which the user can refer to in the future. Also, there is a statistics part of the app where the user can see the percentage of each emotion they have felt while downloading the app.
Challenges
Here are some of the challenges that the team faced while building this application:
What’s Next?
Some of the future plans of the project creators Brian Cherin and Kaushik Prakash are
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