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Towards Recovery

2nd prize · Game of Code 2026

An addiction-severity screen a person can take in private. It flags risk for a human counsellor and never acts on its own.

  • Repository: private team repository
Session detail with a risk score of 75, High Risk, Refer, five flagged domains, and a bar chart of discrepancy scores by domain.
One session: risk score, flagged domains and per-domain discrepancy (test account).

What I did

  • Worked on the frontend, the screens participants and counsellors use.
  • Worked on the project documentation.
Role
Frontend and documentation
Team
Dhruv & Friends, four developers
When
June 2026
Built for
Game of Code 2026, Mauritius

The problem

The Addiction Severity Index is a standard early screen, but it needs a trained clinician to run it. The team’s pitch named two barriers to getting one: access and stigma. Towards Recovery brings an ASI-structured screen to the participant, in private, and keeps watching for change afterwards.

How it works

  1. 01

    A calibration, then 21 questions

    A six-second resting-face calibration, then 21 questions across seven clinical domains: medical, employment, drug use, alcohol, legal, family and social, and psychiatric.

  2. 02

    Compared with their own face

    The webcam is sampled while each question is answered, and readings are compared with the participant’s own resting face instead of a fixed “neutral”.

  3. 03

    Three tiers: monitor, review, refer

    A deterministic risk score places each session in one of three tiers: monitor, review or refer.

  4. 04

    Check-ins watch for drift

    People in the monitor tier check in over time. Drift detection escalates them to review after a sustained change across two readings in a row.

  5. 05

    What the counsellor sees

    Counsellors see the live tier, the flagged domains and an optional written summary.

    Counsellor dashboard table of submitted sessions with risk levels and flagged domains. The participant column is blacked out.
    The counsellor dashboard. Participant details redacted for this page.

Design decisions

Results

Four team members holding the Game of Code 2026 second prize cheque in front of a Curtin Mauritius banner.
Second prize, Game of Code 2026.

More screenshots

Intake screen titled Addiction Severity Index Screening, listing 21 questions, continuous emotion sampling, 8 to 12 minutes, counsellor review only, and a consent checkbox.
Participant intake: what to expect, and consent before the webcam turns on.

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