Stressed? There's an app for that
From: The Source - Washington University in St. Louis - 04/11/2016
By: Tamara Bhandari

Washington University-based team launches stress-management app

After learning that local veterans were facing long waits for mental health
services, a team of medical and engineering students at Washington University
in St. Louis wanted to help in some way.

The team created what its members hope will be an aid to veterans and others
experiencing stress: an app that measures a user’s stress and suggests steps
to take to alleviate it.

The app uses information from a heart-rate monitor to measure a user’s
stress. When stress markers begin to rise, the person’s phone beeps, and a
notification pops up, asking "How do you feel?"

The user taps an icon reflecting his or her mood - glad, mad, sad or stressed
- and types a sentence or two of explanation. In response, the app suggests
appropriate exercises such as meditation, gratitude journaling, or
cognitive-behavioral therapy activities.

Read the entire article at:
https://source.wustl.edu/2016/04/stressed-theres-app
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/stressed-theres-app

Links:
Midset app (with video 6:38)
http://www.mindset-app.com

Ravi Chacko
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-chacko-2b686b18