Actors:
- Therapist: A licensed professional guiding the patient through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
- Patient: Someone working through anxiety and stress with CBT.
- Friend AI Necklace: A smart wearable that records sound and helps organize and retrieve important info.
Scenario:
The patient, dealing with social anxiety, attends regular CBT sessions. The Friend AI Necklace becomes a key part of their therapy journey.
Steps:
- Pre-Therapy Session:
- The patient turns on the Friend AI Necklace before the session starts.
- The necklace starts recording audio as soon as the session begins.
- Therapy Session:
- During the session, the therapist and patient talk about what triggers the patient's anxiety, how to manage those triggers, and positive self-talk techniques.
- The therapist asks the patient to describe recent anxious moments and their responses.
- The Friend AI Necklace records everything.
- The therapist suggests specific cognitive restructuring exercises and coping strategies.
- Post-Therapy Session:
- After the session, the Friend AI Necklace transcribes and analyzes the recorded session.
- Key insights and action items (like cognitive restructuring exercises, trigger points, coping strategies) are pulled out and organized.
- The AI generates a summary of the session, highlighting important notes and strategies recommended by the therapist.
- The patient gets a notification on their smartphone with the summary and reminders for their exercises.
- Daily Life:
- As the patient goes about their day, they encounter situations that trigger anxiety.
- The patient can talk to the Friend AI Necklace, documenting their feelings and responses in real-time.
- The necklace records these voice entries and uses AI to categorize and label them for easy retrieval.
- The patient also sets verbal reminders to practice specific coping strategies or do relaxation exercises.
- Between Sessions:
- The Friend AI Necklace periodically prompts the patient with positive self-talk statements and reminders of coping strategies discussed in therapy.
- It can also remind the patient to review their recorded entries and summaries to reflect on their progress and practice cognitive restructuring.
- Future Therapy Sessions:
- When the patient returns for their next therapy session, the Friend AI Necklace provides a detailed summary and playback of relevant recordings from the previous week.
- The therapist reviews this data to tailor the session's focus, address ongoing challenges, and celebrate progress.
- The patient and therapist collaboratively update the treatment plan based on real-time data and insights provided by the AI Necklace.
Through these interactions, the Friend AI Necklace helps the patient document their experiences, reinforce therapeutic strategies, and enables the therapist to offer more personalized and effective treatment within the CBT framework.
