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Digital Tool to Detect the State of Languishing of Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic

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HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters (HCII 2021)

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This paper presents a mobile application prototype that pretends to identify the state of languishing in postgraduate students, who have been dealing with social distancing due COVID-19 pandemic. In order to make visible the social significance of tools that encourage students and other users to understand their emotions and to look for a good mental health accompanied by specialists, with the knowledge that no one is spare of suffering from an emotional problem. In addition, the data obtained may be used to take appropriate measures by the corresponding authorities by the hand of mental health specialized. The presented prototype development process in this paper responds to an interface design based on human-computer interaction methods and tools and shows some suggested improvements after the evaluating phase.

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    Flow is a psychological state in which individuals concentrate on a task, this allows them to reach a state of well-being without thinking about time and space [13].

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    M. Guzmán, P. Manzanilla, J. Martínez, T. Tapia, A. Núñez & S. Zepeda

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Guzmán, M., Manzanilla, P., Martínez, J., Tapia, T., Núñez, A., Zepeda, S. (2021). Digital Tool to Detect the State of Languishing of Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1499. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90179-0_36

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