UrChi

 Nowadays,  residents
of highly developed cities such as Delhi and New York are
always in constant stress  that has led to a spike not

only in suicide cases because of a comparatively low happiness quotient but also a hinderance in overall productivity at their

workplaces including a myriad of psychological disorders,
physical health problems where stress takes an enormous toll
on the body causing post-stress traumatic problems. Besides
being dealt psychologically, they need to learn how to live life
with zest and zeal in spite of the inevitable worries especially in the dark times of the pandemic.

Proposed Solution: In recent studies, it has been concluded
that Spirituality plays a huge role in healthcare. Therefore, we
have thought of artificially intelligent chatbot called UrChi that
empowers the user's inner energy , and
thereby spiritually motivating the user to go ahead in life by
helping out with any current mental, physical or emotional issues the person is facing.

We are targeting the dilemma of overall mental, physical and emotional health that is gradually deteriorating in the midst of this pandemic with a loss of purpose in life. The stakeholders includes age groups varying from adolescents to the old age who want to rejoice the zeal in their life once again. At a global scale, we could assess the gravity of this problem with the statistics of happiness quotient in the aggregate.

For example, Finland has the highest happiness index (approx. 78%) although its not economically or nationally developed as the metropolitan countries where there is a corporate structure. The residents of Finland consider their mental health a priority irrespective of anything and the environmental factors too account for this; in developed places like Manhattan, Tokyo, Delhi, life has become fast as the speed of light with stress as an integral feeling. People have become reliant upon their profession in the urban areas due to which the happiness index has further declined amidst the epidemic where the stakeholders have no idea how to bring mental peace about and dodge the toll of boredom, depression, despair and loneliness. Falling from 140 to 144, India witnessed a typical situation. 

The solution is to interact with the users in a psychological and spiritual manner to solve the prevalent issues uprooting during the pandemic. A poor mental health adversely impacts your physical health leading to migraines and gastrointestinal problems which are frequent signs of depression or even fibromyalgia, like diseases. UrChi is an artificial intelligence based, chatbot that acknowledges the user's problem, whether emotional, physical or mental and suggests a 'spiritual medication', that includes a package of yoga asanas or types of meditation to do according to the user's situation. For instance, the butterfly yoga asana could heal the user's gastrointestinal problems due to anxiety. 

The person could also use this solution as a medium for venting out; amid the pandemic, everyone is suffering, even without being a victim of the virus. So, hope and faith is the need of the hour where users empower their inner strength and don't succumb to a mental breakdown.

You could chat with Victoria, first host of UrChi. The technology includes Natural Language Processing and Data Analysis; meticulously comprehends the person's problem and spiritually interacts accordingly.

Amidst this pandemic, hope is running out and mental, physical, emotional issues in the body have started to fit in. In order to overcome this challenge, we need spiritual backbone that deals with the human psychology and helps reboot and detoxify our system with a technology to assist us by our side, keeping our personalized data stored for our current mental, physical status.

Starting off from a small scale, I intend to improve the lives of the people around me; my peers and neighbors who are safe from Covid but not from the clutches of mental depression. To be mentally fit, this spiritual - AI assistant would remind them of the greatness of purpose and life with exciting ways of self- rejuvenation. At the moment, due to social distancing and all the pandemic guidelines, an interaction even for counselling has become unfeasible. Since this era is entering new sea waters of technology, this chatbot wouldn't replace humans rather assist in lifestyle modifications.

Till the time the deployment of the project is completed, we are testing the prototype at a small scale, with the neighbors and evaluating the efficiency where they can temporarily create lifestyle modifications on the guidance of the technology and spiritually enhance themselves!

The Health Security Challenge mentions a goal of combating loneliness and improving mental health which is evidently declining  in the midst of this pandemic. Apparently, this is alarming in the domain of Health Security Challenge since mental, psychological and emotional health are equally significant as physical health. People are partly dying in COVID-19 is due to the depressive, mundane times they face even during the quarantine; deprived of optimism.

Therefore, this solution vouches for a better lifestyle as one of SOLVE's goal is to  fight all sorts of health challenges posed by the terror of year 2020-2021.

The solution is in a prototype stage since the overall UrChi model has been made and is evaluated by medical professionals, psychologists and the general population. The interactive interface has been created with an aim to improve its efficiency. In the future, we aspire to deploy the model in an easily accessible app on everyone's devices.

At the moment, the prototype stands at an accuracy level of 78% with a positive feedback; nevertheless, shows scope of improvement before deployment with further surveys around the victims of the pandemic.

Since adolescents and middle aged are most adversely impacted by the mental problems, the prototype has been spread about in the local schools, societies and neighborhoods where a definite change too has been brought about in their lives and we are quite happy to know that!

The team consists of two people. One is a student and the other is an entrepreneur.

The overall skills of our team includes in-depth knowledge of the human psychology, entrepreneurship, management skills as well as Artificial Intelligence and Biology.

The implemented capabilities had been managed by Ms. Vanuka Trehan, a microbiologist, entrepreneur, astrologist as well as Masters in Informational Technology. She was able to put together the entire agenda of the project. The team aimed to help the people in need through a spiritual yet convenient medium and since it took us 5 months, we carefully planned every step, from how we were going to deal with the mental psych through technology to spiritual and emotional assistance with a chatbot . We wanted to fit in the shoes of the victims and approach the problem in a much more relatable way.