AnsioSOS

AnsioSOS is a psychoeducational platform that helps university students manage anxiety: content, exercises and a personal safety plan. It is the working version of my Industrial Design thesis (UDP, 2021, passed with distinction), which until now only existed as a clickable prototype in Adobe XD. It went from a mockup to seventeen components and fourteen screens that actually work.

The most serious part of the project is not the code, it is the privacy model. The data is classified into three levels by how sensitive it is, with a line that is never crossed: thoughts, chat and ideation never leave the device. The principle for the institutional dashboard is that the institution sees the forest and never the trees: only aggregates, and only above a threshold of ten people. During development an ethical design error was caught and fixed: one version of the dashboard let individual data be read.

The decision not to put a language model in the chat is also grounded, not laziness: for this use case the available evidence shows no practical difference compared to a rules-based system, and a model adds clinical and privacy risk that is not worth it. The clinical content was filtered with the same criteria: diaphragmatic breathing yes, some popular techniques no, and one supplement ruled out for liver toxicity.