Towards a micro-blog platform for sensing and easing adolescent psychological pressures

  • Authors:
  • Yuanyuan Xue;Qi Li;Ling Feng;Gari D. Clifford;David A. Clifton

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;University of Oxford, U.K., Oxford, United Kingdom;University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Adolescent mental health cannot be ignored, and psychological pressure is one of the prominent problems of current teenagers. Micro-blog, as the most important information exchange and broadcast tool in the current society, is becoming an important channel for teenagers' information acquisition, inter-interaction, self-expression, emotion release due to its unique equality, freedom, fragmentation, individuality characteristics. This poster envisions a micro-blog platform, aiming to (1) sense psychological pressures through teenagers' tweets, and (2) assist teenagers to release their stress through micro-blog. A method for timely detecting psychological pressures from teenagers' tweets is particularly described. Our preliminary experimental results on real data demonstrate the validity of the approach. We also discuss ways to assist teenagers to release their pressures through micro-blog at the end of the poster.