Helping Teenagers Relieve Psychological Pressures: A Micro-blog Based System

Abstract

The rapid development of economy and society brings un-precedentedly intensive competition and adolescent psycho-logical pressures to current teenagers. If these psychological pressures could not be resolved properly, they will turn to mental problems, which will finally lead to serious conse-quences, such as suicide or aggressive behaviors. Tradition-al face-to-face psychological diagnosis and treatment cannot meet the demand of relieving teenagers ’ stress completely due to its lack of timeliness and diversity. With micro-blog becoming a popular media channel for teenagers ’ informa-tion acquisition, interaction, self-expression and emotion re-lease, we present a system called tHelper for sensing and easing teenagers ’ psychological pressures in study, commu-nication, affection, or self-recognition through micro-blog.