Emotion Guru: A Smart Emotion Tracking Application with AI Conversational Agent for Exploring and Preventing Depression

Mental health issues like depression and anxiety have been increasing among the population over the years. In Sri Lanka specifically people's happiness has seemed to decrease. This can be a reason for the increase in mental health issues. These mental health issues sometimes sadly result in suicide. One of the root causes of mental illness is the lack of understanding one has on their own emotions. To address the identified problem this research study proposed a solution by promoting emotional intelligence. The solution is an emotion tracking application that includes an AI conversational agent who will talk to users when they are mentally down and suggest ways in which they can improve their emotions based on their own previous experiences. The application will also allow users to analyse their weekly emotions by providing easy to understand charts and detecting their emotions from their social media posts. The empirical results show the machine learning model for the chatbot obtained an accuracy of 98.46%.