Go Together: Bridging the Gap between Learners and Teachers

TL;DR

This paper presents the development of a mobile app called Go Together to facilitate social and mental health support through a human library concept, aiming to reach more people and improve social connections post-pandemic.

Contribution

It introduces a customized UI/UX for the GTMA, incorporating features like booking, reviews, and a loyalty program to enhance engagement in a human library platform.

Findings

Minimum viable product approved by client

Platform supports global membership and interaction

Enhanced engagement through tailored UI/UX

Abstract

After the pandemic, humanity has been facing different types of challenges. Social relationships, societal values, and academic and professional behavior have been hit the most. People are shifting their routines to social media and gadgets, and getting addicted to their isolation. This sudden change in their lives has caused an unusual social breakdown and endangered their mental health. In mid-2021, Pakistan's first Human Library was established under HelpingMind to overcome these effects. Despite online sessions and webinars, HelpingMind needs technology to reach the masses. In this work, we customized the UI or UX of a Go Together Mobile Application (GTMA) to meet the requirements of the client organization. A very interesting concept of the book (expert listener or psychologist) and the reader is introduced in GTMA. It offers separate dashboards, separate reviews or rating systems, booking, and venue information to engage the human reader with his or her favorite human book. The loyalty program enables the members to avail discounts through a mobile application and its membership is global where both the human-reader and human-books can register under the platform. The minimum viable product has been approved by our client organization.