Digital journaling tool to support mental health

What is it about?

Over a lifetime, a person may experience numerous transitions, e.g., moving out of their parent's house, starting or ending relationships etc. These major, disruptive life events are often unsettling and have major mental health implications. We share the findings of a digital journaling tool (LTJ) that can help people in transitions identify what capabilities are affected where LTJ can help users to track and address particular capability gaps to support their well-being.

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Why is it important?

An interesting framework for addressing the life transition problem is Capability Sensitive Design (CSD), a design methodology based on philosopher Nussbaum's Capability Theory, which says that all human beings are equally entitled to have ten basic capabilities. We contexualize the ten capabilities for newcomers who are international students in a new country. The digital journaling tool (LTJ) allow users to track and work on the most important capabilities that they feel are being affected due to their life transition.

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