The problem Citta solves

With the recent advent of the pandemic and the lockdown it has brought, people have turned a blind eye towards their mental health. Living in isolation and having minimal to no contact with their loved ones certainly takes a toll on one’s health.

So, in order to keep our mental health in check, we turn towards certain mental health apps. While they perform pretty accurately to provide a prognosis based on user’s symptoms, users still have to select which diseases’ questionnaire they want to attempt. This would be problematic for a newbie as all the symptoms and all these questionnaires tend to get confusing.

Challenges we ran into

A project is always accompanied by a steep learning curve and loads of challenges and our journey was no exception to this.

1. Designing a UI which is easy to use , intuitive and soothing to the mind posed a serious challenge . The colour theme of the App has been designed so as to stay consistent with our theme of mental health .

2. The algorithm for giving rise to user specific questions posed another significant milestone during the development of this App . Figuring out which questions could be used to narrow down our search results and increase accuracy , turned out to be much more difficult than what we had anticipated.

3. We faced a bit of a challenge while integrating our CittaBot with our application . Breaking down user queries into tokens and having a properly chat flow was important . Dialog Flow helped us a lot in this aspect .