Description

GroundMe is an Android app that helps users address the problem of acute stress and anxiety. It uses a set of interactive exercises/games designed to ground users into the present moment to redirect negative or spiraling thoughts.

This app lets users create an account through Firebase and allows users to log their stress/anxiety events from our trigger tracker. We store users’ triggers on Firebase Realtime Database (NoSQL) and keep track of when and where the user needs to use the app. For example, if the user approaches places or times that have caused anxiety in the past, the app sends a notification to check in on them

For the purpose of this project, we also built two activities to interact with users:

Marble Game:

The goal of this small game is to roll a marble through a maze and into a target hole. There are barriers between the start point for the marble and the target hole. This activity makes use of the accelerometer sensors to determine the direction and acceleration of the marble. Size of the maze is dynamically determinted based on screen size.

Painting:

The user sees a white rectangle and a short prompt (e.g., draw an object close to you). The user can then select a color and use their finger to draw on the canvas. Prompts are generated randomly to increase interactions with users.

All tasks that takes more than a few milliseconds are placed in background threads to avoid blocking the UI thread.

Finally, our application was designed following agile development, Android quality guidelines and tested under Android StrictMode.

Demo