Release adolescent stress by virtual chatting

Abstract

Many teenagers today live with stress. Due to their spiritual immaturity, teenagers cannot properly cope with stress, which probably brings such bad consequences as depression and even suicide. Hence, it is important to help teenagers timely resolve their stress. Many times, teenagers hesitate to express and reveal their negative emotion to the people nearby. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a web-based virtual chatting tool, which can listen to, comfort, encourage the stressed teenagers and give useful solutions for their problems through chatting and thus releasing their stress. The tool also integrates social media micro-blog not only to support stress detection but also to provide useful resources for stress release.