Mental Wellness Companion for Students using AIML

Varsha Shukla

Abstract: Now a days students are struggling with mental health. Between strict classes, tough competition, it's a lot. But when the need the help, many students are can't asking for it, sometimes because of the stigma, ego, or sometime it's not easy to reach out. And that's why this research comes in. And the idea is using pepper, means the robot that from soft bank robotics, as kind of mental wellness companion on the campus. It is not just a robot it will use ai tools like natural language processing (NPL). It?s actually talk with students, understand their facial expression for sense how they are feeling, and listen their changes in their voice that might mean they?re sad or upset.

Keywords: Student Well-being, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Social Robots, Emotion Recognition, Conversational Agents, Stress Detection, Depression & Anxiety Support