PreCursor is a multi-platform web browser built with React Native designed for people who have been through traumatic experiences and are seeking a smart and customizable software solution to deliver a trigger-free web browsing experience.
- IDEAL: Trauma victims are able to surf the web without having to worry about coming across potential trauma triggers.
- REALITY: Given the volume of unfiltered, untagged information uploaded onto the Internet and the nature of the modern web browsing experience, trauma victims can be inadvertently exposed to trauma triggers without warning.
- CONSEQUENCES: Trauma victims may have unwanted emotional reactions to trauma triggers on the internet, possibly worsening their mental state and reopening the wounds of trauma.
PreCursor is a web browser for victims of trauma that considers the presence of trauma triggers on the Internet. Victims of trauma (or their therapist(s)) can provide PreCursor specific words and concepts that could cause a trauma-based reaction in the user, and PreCursor will provide the user AI-based warnings and filtering of webpages and their content based on the user's needs. Overall, this limits the potential for triggering content to be consumed inadvertently, and provides the user sufficient warning to consume the potentially triggering content in a prepared state of mind.
Smart trigger detection through forms of media beyond text, such as with audio, image, and video, is a feature that is very important to the team and will be the first priority for development after the Hackathon. In the future, we will develop a more robust algorithm for detecting and removing trigger words through sophisticated natural language processing methods. Additionally, we plan on incorporating specific, instantaneous user feedback within PreCursor to train our algorithm's trigger detection process, giving the user even more agency over their web browsing experience.
- @coltonrusch - Colton Rusch
- @andersonaddo - Anderson Addo
- @oceanpak - Ocean Pak
- @jwhang7799 - Jason Whang
- @ - Justin Sanders
- @amoon7 - David Moon