Aurora
Programme
HD in Biomedical Science
Campus
Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Sha Tin)
Discipline
Health and Life Sciences
Year
2025
Technologies / Project Domains
ITCC Innovation Awards
Project Authors
CHONG Ka Wang , CHOI Chit Ue , Li Ziye , Lui Man Hin
Project Supervisors
Ms CHIU Man Yin, Mandy
Aurora is an AI-powered mental health screening tool designed to achieve the mental needs of students along with replaces the traditional school mental health questionnaires, which cannot offer accurate result. Aurora will start the conversation actively with students while they click in the system on their phone or computer.
Aurora's speak and contend are base on psychometric framework and trained large language model (LLM) with natural language processing (NLP). Therefore, those allows Aurora has supportive and non-judgmental speak, offering conversationally therapeutic to students and analysing their stress indicator during the conversation. For those stressed or needed students, Aurora would mark them and ask them would they like to be linked with social worker gently.
If the students allow Aurora to link them with social worker, they will have a private chatroom on Aurora. Therefore, the social worker could follow up the cases.
Regarding the students do not want to be linked with social worker, they could keep the conversation and connection with Aurora.
• AI-powered mental health screening tool

• supportive and non-judgmental speak, offering conversationally therapeutic to students and analysing their stress indicator during the conversation.

• Mark stressed student and ask them would they like to be linked with social worker gently.

• Keep the conversation and connection with student.
  • ITCC Innovation Awards 2024/25 (Innovation Track) - Merit Award, VTC Innovation and Technology Co-creation Centre, 2025