Designing an anxiety self-regulation and education mobile application for high school students

Abstract

High school students often experience high pressure in relation to their learning and social activities, which can increase their worries and anxiety. Giving students access to relevant information and teaching them how to manage anxiety are important for their school performance and wellbeing. Given the wide use of smart phones, local community organisations have decided to develop a mobile application to help high school students cope with anxiety as part of a collaborative project with us. Developing applications for high school students requires thorough understanding of preferences and phone usage habits of this special user group. We followed a user centred and collaborative design approach involving target users throughout the design process and in this paper, we report the activities and findings of this project.