Fang-Ping Hsu · CLIENT: Mind without borders
Mind without Borders is a mobile application designed to support the health and care of children during the spread of an epidemic. The application allows children or care providers to report health information regularly, so that volunteers and psychotherapists can offer help in time. Anonymous and secure messaging connects children in different countries as pen pals through text, voice and video. Contact with family and friends is also included. The aim is to reduce anxiety and to ease the burden on health care workers.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Mind without borders designed for children's health and care during the spread of an epidemic, integrates regular return health information, family and friends messages, secure and anonymous communication with children from all over the world, experiences the pleasure of writing letters and waiting to receive them, and reduces anxiety.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Mind without Borders is a child-friendly anonymous communication and global social app that connects with pen pals in a variety of ways, including text messages, voice, and video, you can be volunteer internationally and help other disadvantaged children. Mind without Borders is expected to be released on Android, iOS, and PC platforms.
- Tags
- remote interactive , health tracking , anonymous communication , parent-child communication , pen pal , language exchange , mental health , IoT
- Production Technology
- Using IoT to connect children from all over the world and to understand the physical and mental state of children around the world through a health big data profile, to enable anonymous communication, health tracking, communication with family and friends, and connections with psychotherapists and volunteers, to alleviate the decline in children's mental health as a result of the home quarantine or long-term home-study.
- Design Challenge
- Since the target group is a child, designers are always reminded to design from a child's point of view, hoping that the child can use the APP more intuitively and easily. When discussing with professionals in different fields, there are bound to be miscommunication situations, learning how to communicate with engineers, and cross-disciplinary collaboration is one of the trends of the future.
- Project Duration
- Mind without Borders began thinking in August 2020, exploring user experience from September to November, and developing and designing mainstream visual frameworks for mobile devices, completed in Taiwan in November 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Mind without borders is an APP used to care for children during the spread of infectious diseases, by establishing anonymous communication of information between children in various countries, health tracking, communication with family and friends, and connections with psychotherapists and volunteers to alleviate the decline in mental health of children as a result of the epidemic. Mind without Borders allows children or care providers to return health information, enabling online volunteers and psychotherapists to help in a timely manner, thereby reducing the burden on health care workers.
- Research
- Problem01.The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of adolescents and youth.
Problem02.Parents take care of their children's negative emotions for a long time.
Problem03.Health return information is unreliable and the burden of health care workers.
Problem04.Children lack access to psychological expression. - Inspiration
- Mind without borders is an APP used to care for children during the spread of infectious diseases, by establishing anonymous communication of information between children in various countries, health tracking, communication with family and friends, and connections with psychotherapists and volunteers to alleviate the decline in mental health of children as a result of the epidemic.
- Image Credits
- Image #1：Licensor's Author Freepik - Freepik.com,Premium license (Unlimited use without attribution),Kids taking a selfie in the library while wearing medical masks,Subscription ID:ag_f78f7869-e118-40fe-b0e6-e3d403e40d8f **
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