ANXIETY CONNECTION: A MOBILE APPLICATION TO AID TEACHERS WORKING WITH STUDENTS WITH ANXIETY

Abstract

The goal of this project is to create a mobile application that is a resource for professors and other instructors when working with students with anxiety. The application provides streamline communication between students, professors, and affiliated mental health professionals. It also allows for personalization to individual students’ needs, providing resources for instructors when working with a student. These include a manual of interaction techniques that an instructor could access quickly and simply, and a venue for discrete communication between student and faculty. The project is not yet fully implemented. Substantial progress has been made on back-end support for the application including user and document databases, database support, and document retrieval and storage. Due to roadblocks in multi-platform application, front-end development did not progress as far. Code for mobile application and web application views have been started, but connection to the back-end have yet to be completed. This paper explores these topics in greater depth and the existing codebase is provided.