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Intro We made this program as part of the health and wellness track in order to counter social media fatigue and facilitate breaking out of a negative feedback loop

Social media can be a tough battlefield, and sometimes, you just need a little hiatus from it all, but you might not realize. Our project aims to help you realize that, once in a while, touching grass is good for you :)

Project Design We made a chrome plugin that does something every time you go on a social media, after a certain period of time (shortened for demonstration), ducks starts floating around on your screen

And you can click them away

But they’ll keep spewing

Yeah...

We haven’t figured out how to stop them yet, but the goal is after a certain of interval of time, the onslaught pauses

Generally the idea is that when ducks start spawning, it is a reminder to unplug and destress.

Challenges This is actually harder than it looks, believe it or not. Many chrome extensions and javascript APIs were asynchronously implemented without much warning, and the web console is not the most descriptive with error messages. One sech plugin was chrome.runtime's message system, which we took around 4 hours to implement to no avail. JQuery also decided to not work for the most part..., and overlaying displays on top of other people's websites was not as easy as it seems.

Next Steps

• actually implement the touching grass portion by using a supervised learning model to verify images of the user touching grass
• expand this to mobile as well

Built With

• chrome
• css
• html5
• javascript
• jquery