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Use eye tracking technology to track children's attention patterns and behaviors as they read, work, and learn everyday. Gain productivity and attention insights, and detect symptoms of depression early with visible evidence. As education embraces tech, we can utilize the ecosystem and its functions to notice and help at-risk youth.

How much potential have we lost from not noticing clinical depression in the youth that are the future? The solution is to use eye tracking to monitor learning and working, and see symptoms of depression. As eye tracking becomes a hardware standard it will allow people to control and access visual feedback about their productivity. By providing accessible data that's also relatable, it can help with understanding mental health. With attitudes, stigmas, and awareness varying around the world, this solution can use visible evidence to support diagnosis and aid early detection. It can be used in many environments, whether it's a structured school setting, doing work alone, or just general productivity anywhere. With this solution scaled, everyone would have a way to see their productivity habits and be aware of their brain functions and mental wellness. There would no longer be any clinically depressed individuals slipping by, unable to produce to their potential, because they didn't have tangible evidence to get the help they need.

Depression can be hard to trace and hard to believe, even for the affected individuals. It can be difficult for children who don't have the power of choice and are still developing self-awareness. Kids around the world share the common thread of learning but their environments can differ. They might not have the proper guidance at home or school to realize symptoms. They can work through life unaware, showing results within standard deviation, but not to their natural potential.

Eye tracking tech may soon be standard in consumer hardware. As well as being an input device, eye tracking tracks users' directed attention. It's already used in research and by physicians to detect some neurological disorders. With clinical depression, motivation shrinks, diminishing will-power and attention span. Without them, the inflicted can perform reading actions but can't concentrate to comprehend what they read. Attempting to understand requires rereads and these trials can be tracked and analyzed. This solution reveals individuals who try and need help from those who don't attempt to try and may require other needs.

The solution hopes to create a universal, accessible, and layman's way to early detect and prevent adolescent clinical depression by providing visible evidence. It can encourage healthy brain function by monitoring, analyzing, and presenting feedback on productivity. Eye tracking hardware will have another cause to be a standard in consumer electronics. Students can receive the software through school systems and the software can also be applied to materials outside of textbooks for other demographics to use. This solution will become a benchmark in mental well-being and productivity, like how the weight scale is to our physical well-being.

Track and observe eye movement pattern differences between those with clinical depression and those with healthy brain productivity functions. - Clinically depressed individuals struggle to pay attention and comprehend their reading, resulting in them to display rereading regressions.

Monitor pilot runs, ask for teacher feedback, and use brain scanning technology to confirm. - The solution successfully identifies students at risk of depression or who are already depressed among a classroom of students.

Track implementation with those who have access and influence in the education sector. - Scale the method so it is incorporated in schools throughout the world.

Eye tracking has been used studying depression and one's response to emotional images, but not as a consumer and business facing productivity monitor that can also uncover signs of depression. My solution uses eye tracking to monitor attention and concentration, giving behavioral insights with actions we already perform daily. As learning turns digital, education systems can incorporate eye tracking to track visual engagement as they read and work to reveal patterns and give feedback. Because reading is common for almost everyone's productivity, this method is accessible, and very 

This solution is human-centered because most humans read things everyday to be productive and move forward in life. As everything moves digital and eye tracking in consumer hardware becomes more affordable, this solution can be scaled for everyone. It records a ubiquitous action that happens both at home and at school, and gives meaning to tracking brain functions. Children should be receiving education and learning everyday regardless of the situation that they're in. With this technology, parents and teachers can quickly monitor their kids' attention patterns and surface anomalies. This solution can be applied to all digital platforms.

Eye tracking technology will be more affordable and become a standard in consumer devices. The solution can be downloaded and stored on a cloud.

For this solution to be realized it will need some type of investor. The product can be sold to schools that pioneer education standards and prioritize nurturing the best students. After its success it can spread to other schools as an accepted standard. It can also be a product that everyone owns, like a weight scale, because of their new found awareness of mental health. It can be sold to businesses or consumers. Its technology is versatile and can be adapted for any productivity occuring on digital platforms.

Students will need to access their schoolwork digitally.

Eye tracking tech needs to be ubiquitous and inexpensive.

People will have privacy concerns and general uneasiness of being tracked.

Coming up with the right and sensible way to collect eye movement patterns and gain insight on brain functions. (Deciding on ranges, averaging different groupings, knowing what's significant and not)

Designing an effective visual system to present the collected data easily for actionable items.

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I believe the Solve community has the resources to create and adapt eye-tracking technology for education systems. Current eye tracking technology isn't mainstream, affordable, nor applied to this cause, but the concept is logical. I hope with Solve's support, this solution can be researched, have a working prototype, and be proven. Then it can be scaled to detect and prevent clinical depression in adolescents around the world.

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