Wish Wall: Helping Each Other in College

In modern society, college students are facing great pressures from different aspects of life. This huge pressure is largely rooted in the accumulation of small problems in life. If those small problems could be solved in a timely manner, the pressures on them will gradually weaken and even disappear. Psychological studies have proved that expressing wishes and being aware of support existence are highly effective and healthy ways to reduce people's fear associated with real-life challenges and find strength to tackle the problems. To this end, we build a wish wall (an online wishing and helping) mobile platform, where students can make use of text and pictures freely to put forward their wishes in the categories of study, family, peer relation, romantic relation, self-cognition, career planning, and so on. After that, the backend will recommend other capable potential support users to help the wish raisers to accomplish the wishes. In this way, we are able to make the users contact online while solving their wishes offline, and finally achieve the goal of helping each other. Our user study with 17 senior college students showed that upon 10 raised wishes (3 on study, 1 on internship, 3 on career plan, 1 on parent relation, and 2 others), half of them were responded with satisfaction, demonstrating the effectiveness of the wish wall platform.