CARESS
Know more. Care more.
Interactive Design
ABOUT THE PROJECT
When it comes to mental illness help is, unfortunately not our natural response. Instead, most people shy away or avoid someone experiencing a mental health emergency. Thinking whatever the person is going through is “personal,” or that “it’s a family matter.”
The intent is to engage the minority of the groups back to the society, with the concept of not thinking mental health as a problem. A specific target audience is “who is willing to help people with mental illness but do not know how to”
How might we help close one's to mentally ill people in such a way that they know how and when to assist mentally ill people.
Fast Facts
Mixed anxiety and depression are the most
common mental disorders.
Between 8 - 12% of the population
experience depression each year.
Most people with mental disorders live
productive and positive lives while receiving
treatments for their mental illness.
Some people have severe and persistent
mental disorders which respond
poorly to current treatments.
Mental illness does not respect any
boundaries of race, class or geography.
The majority of people have a friend, acquaintance
or family member who has or has had a mental disorder.
Story Line
Firstly, identifying if their close ones are mentally ill.
Understanding the type of mental illness, their
immediate ones are going through.
Specifying the signs and symptoms faced by
their Immediate ones.
Understanding they could help the people
with their illness with the activities suggested.
Lastly check for doctors & support groups
in a critical situation.
Caress helps you to learn about
1.types of mental health
2.tells you things to "say or not to say",
"things to do" or "not to do" to a person suffering
3.helps to diagnose depression
4.share insights with people who have faced the same
5.contact the psychiatrist.
Needs
Need to know when there is a stressful situation help to snap out of it.
Need the close one to know when / when not to be around the person with depression.
Need someone to show the close one's how they could help
Seeking professional help
Doing activities together & take him out
Need to create a good environment
Need to make sure that they are engaged in some productive interest.
Making sure the close one has good hygiene.
Opportunity
Saying something hurtful, making them feel like a burden & locks the room.
Doctors generally don't brief them about the situation & medications don't help all the time or they do not take it.
People around them do not how to make them feel better.
The person affected with mental illness, at the beginning does not agree on having the doctor see him or would not let anyone talk to him. So, the people around him will face a problem to talk to him and make him himself understand that there is a behavioral change within him.
Gain trust Act fairly, respect, and also try to make work fun by communicating well and often.
Features
Personalized options
Use it where it’s possible. Personalization is undeniably loved by everyone. Flexible settings, fonts, colors and sizes are a winner when it simply comes to picking an app among similar ones. Make the app look and work the way they want to. Positive emotions can easily tip the scales in favour.
Offline work
Naturally, there are lots of apps that mostly rely on the availability of an Internet connection. However, access to features and content in the offline mode is a must-have even in complex corporate systems. Exact features may be so specific that it would be difficult to categorize them.
Functionality
Final product must not affect the personal life of user. In fact, it will have to motivate users to help immediate depressed people.
Security
It is vital to specialized app development in such industries as healthcare and mobile device management, where data confidentiality is protected on the legal level.
Area of work
Places where are people with mental illness as well as general public like Hospitals, homes etc.
Relevance
For the people who are immediate people are mentally ill and are eager to help them out.
