With an increasing fear of being replaced by Artificial Intelligence in workplaces among the general public, people are questioning current rapid technological innovation. To create a positive vision for the development of AI and any new technology in the future, we as a team started to explore the possibilities to utilize AI power as an efficient assist instead of any kinds of replacement.

“What if AI can be applied in clinical therapy?”
Emotions like anxiety, fear, and depression are common human reactions that can be easily triggered by long-term social pressure. There is one in five people in the US is experiencing or will experience a mental illness at any possible future moment of his/her life. However, good therapists are always hard to find and reach out. And the therapy treatment is also a long journey to take. How can we help improve the efficiency during or between each therapy session?

We thought about tackle this problem from a smaller scope: directly helping the therapists by solving one single difficulty (processing handwriting/textual data) within a specific technique (journaling) in the clinical therapy process.