Dwi Nurarifah, a student of the Faculty of Psychology UGM 2017, together with two other students, Qooi Insanu (Faculty of Geography UGM) and Joko Purwo (Faculty of Agricultural Technology UGM) participated in the competition of Fusion Innovative Contest 2019 organized by IEEE ITB Student Branch with the theme of “Technology for Humanity”. The competition was held at Institut Teknologi Bandung, West Java.
Fusion Innovative Contest 2019 is attended by undergraduate students from various universities in the Asian region. This competition has five subthemes, namely Renewable Energy, Financial Technology, Social Technology, Health Technology, and Eco-Friendly Technology. UGM team under the guidance of Fuad Hamsyah, S. Psi., M.Sc, lecturer of the Faculty of Psychology UGM, asked the idea about the development of a student mental health monitoring system conducted using the integration of the university’s Internet network system.
Development of the system integration concept is called Mojitive. The system was developed as an effort to raise student awareness of the importance of knowing their mental health condition and improving student literacy on mental health. In addition, this system is used as a form of supervision of student mental health development. Supervision is conducted through a map of mental health disorders in the university. Mojitive uses several psychological assessments measuring instruments to conduct primary detection of students.
The initial stage of the competition is collecting paper about ideas initiated that then determine if the team passes to the next stage or not. From the idea, the Mojitive team managed to qualify for the grand finals, the presentation. In the final stage, the winner is announced. The Mojitive team won the 1st place, adding another list of successful students in an international event.
“The beginning of our work is our special concern Qooi as Chairman with the issue of mental health that occurs in the environment around us, so we hope the development of our work will be useful to the issue of mental consciousness in students” said Dwi.