Hollo

02/06/2022

02/11/2020

Hello Ladies :) !!

Hollo is in the process of developing a female focused subscription-based wellness project that offers a monthly collection of products that may help you alleviate stress as well improve your physical and mental well-being. We’re calling it Project Blossom; the central idea is to assist women with not only physical relaxation, but also ways to nourish their mind and soul.

We’re now looking to get to know our female users - attempting to understand their lives and experience as a woman in the 21st century. Your responses would give Team Blossom a better understanding of what stresses you out, and how you currently deal with it, so we can ultimately enhance this process with our services.

We’d love for you to help us fill in this quick survey (only 15 questions short!); you can even potentially join our EXCLUSIVE focus group (where you can even get access to our collection early!). All responses are completely anonymous.
https://tinyurl.com/holloblossom

Thank you for supporting Project Blossom.
We look forward to assisting you better with your physical and mental well-being.

Team Hollo

10/10/2020

Join the 2020 World Mental Health Campaign!
Deliver your kindness🥰, show your care❤️, and enjoy the day🥳 with people you love🎊🛍️!

Find out more about us by following our Instagram account .hk, or page ://www.facebook.com/HolloHongKong/!
You can also get to know us more by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wiIBgxWxk&feature=emb_imp_woyt!

05/09/2020

🌼 5 Mental health tips #1 心理健康小貼士 #1

1. Track gratitude and achievement with a journal.
Include 3 things you were grateful for and 3 things you were able to accomplish each day.

2. Start your day with a cup of co­ffee.
Coff­ee consumption is linked to lower rates of depression. If you can’t drink coff­ee because of the caff­eine, try another good-for-you drink like green tea.

3. Boost brainpower by treating yourself to a couple pieces of dark chocolate every few days.
The flavonoids, caffeine, and theobromine in chocolate are thought to work together to improve alertness and mental skills.

4. Go off the grid.
Leave your smart phone at home for a day and disconnect from constant emails, alerts, and other interruptions. Spend time doing something fun with someone face-to-face.

5. Has something been bothering you? Let it all out…on paper.
Writing about upsetting experiences can reduce symptoms of depression.
Source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323454

1. 記錄下自己所感恩事情和達到的目標
每天以日記形式記錄3件自己感恩的事情和3個自己以往所達到的目標

2. 每天早上喝一杯香濃的咖啡
咖啡能有效減低患上抑鬱症的機會，無法喝咖啡的人也可以嘗試以綠茶代替

3. 間中享受黑巧克力犒賞一下自己吧！
黑巧克力中的類黃酮，咖啡因以及可可鹼能有助提神並改善心理健康

4. 放下你的手機
間中把手機放下，並花時間和家人或朋友們一同享樂吧！

5. 把所煩惱的都宣洩在紙上
把自己不開心的事情寫出來能有效減低患上抑鬱症的機會喔

內容取自：https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323454

02/09/2020

Mental Health Knowledge  #1 (Depression) 情緒病小知識 #1抑鬱症

Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed. It can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s ability to function at work and at home.

Feeling sad or having a depressed mood

Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed

Changes in appetite — weight loss or gain unrelated to dieting

Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much

Loss of energy or increased fatigue

Increase in purposeless physical activity (e.g., hand-wringing or pacing) or slowed movements and speech (actions observable by others)

Feeling worthless or guilty

Difficulty thinking, concentrating or making decisions

Thoughts of death or su***de

Symptoms must last at least two weeks for a diagnosis of depression.

Source： https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/depression/what-is-depression

抑鬱症患者大多長期處於情緒低落的狀態，失去對事物、活動的興趣等，嚴重影響日常生活、社交或學業成績

假如你兩個星期內差不多大部分時間出現下列五項或以上的症狀 (必須包括1或2) ，嚴重影響日常生活、學業或社交活動，你可能患上抑鬱症

情緒低落、煩躁、經常發脾氣

納悶、失去對事物、活動的興趣，如運動、打遊戲機或以往喜愛的活動

食慾不振、暴食或體重驟降/驟升

很難入睡、拒絕起床返學、早醒或渴睡

行動遲滯或說話/行為比平時激動

感到疲累、精力不充或無精打采

專注力下降、失去學習動機

容易過分內疚、自責或覺得無人喜歡自己

反覆有死亡、自殺念頭，寫遺書或把自己最愛的物件送給別人

內容取自：https://www3.ha.org.hk/CAMcom/channel.aspx?code=issue2

29/08/2020

Why is Mental Illness Prevalent in Hong Kong? 🏥
為何精神疾病在香港如此盛行?🏥

Hong Kong has always been known for its long working hours and immense work stress.

Workplace factors that contribute to poor mental health include lack of physical and mental space, limited opportunities to take breaks, low job security, as well as tense workplace cultures transmitted from conflict and stressed bosses.

Hong Kong has one of the longest working hours in the world (51.1 hours per week), with 39% of people working 4-8 hours of overtime each week.

1 in 4 Hong Kong workers suffer symptoms of depression and anxiety – 2.5 times the global average – and around 18% require psychological treatment.

73% are unaware of any mental health support programmes provided by their employer, and 56% have seen mental health issues handled inappropriately in the workplace.

In 2018, 46% of Hong Kong employees worked more than 50 hours per week.

Source: https://www.mind.org.hk/mental-health-in-hong-kong/

香港有著不健康的職場文化及壓力。而工作對精神健康較差的影響可能源於缺乏實際上和心理上的空間、缺乏休息時間、工作不穩定，以及因為職場衝突或上司緣故造成緊繃的職場文化 。

香港是其中一個世界上工作時數最長的地方（每星期平均 51.1 小時），39% 香港人每星期也會超時工作4-8小時 。

每四位香港人就會有一位正在面對焦慮或抑鬱症——是全球平均的 2.5 倍，而大概 18% 的人需要接受心理治療 。

73% 的人並不清楚公司所提供的精神健康支援計劃 ，而 56% 的人曾目睹職場內不恰e當處理精神健康問題 。
於2018年，46%香港僱員每星期工作超過50小時。

內容取自：https://www.mind.org.hk/mental-health-in-hong-kong/

@ Hong Kong

24/08/2020

Mental Illness in Hong Kong👓 論香港人的精神健康

An estimated 1 in 7 people in Hong Kong will experience a common mental disorder at any given time.

Of those experiencing a mental health disorder, three-quarters will not seek professional help.

61% of Hong Kong adults currently suffer from poor mental well-being, with 1 in every 7 people developing a common mental disorder in their lifetime.

The number of psychiatric patients has doubled from 2004 to 2014.
74% of mental health sufferers do not seek any form of professional help.

Anxiety and depressive disorders are the most common health issues in Hong Kong.

Source: https://www.mind.org.hk/mental-health-in-hong-kong/

每七位香港人就有一位在一生中會經歷常見的心理疾病。然而，在這些正經歷精神健康問題的人中，七成半的人並不會尋求專業協助。於受到污名化問題、感到羞愧、對自身情況不了解，及缺乏專業支援的情況下，許多人將會繼續面對被孤立的問題。

61% 香港成人正經歷較差的精神健康狀態，每七位香港人就會有一位在一生中經歷常見心理疾病 。

2014 年精神科病患人數比2004年人數增加一倍 。

74% 精神病患者並沒有尋求任何專業協助。

焦慮症及抑鬱症是香港最普遍的健康問題。

內容取自：https://www.mind.org.hk/mental-health-in-hong-kong/

@ Hong Kong

18/08/2020

Our Milestones 我們的發展🎖

🏆Received recognition from Cyberport and Microsoft Imagine Cup Asia + global and is now operating with the startup funding and now Good Seed SIE Fund. Partnered with Hong Kong Communicare.

🏆Hollo早前成功獲取數碼港CCMF 10萬港元資助及好薈社的SIE創業資金，並於Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2020 中榮獲亞洲區冠軍及全球總冠軍。我們現正與Hong Kong Communicare合作，請大家繼續支持我們往後的發展！

16/08/2020

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👬Our Team 我們的團隊👭

🧳Cameron
- Co-founder & CEO
- MBBT & Science Entrepreneurship
- 42 Lab, Hong Kong National Rugby Team
- Deeply connected in HK Social Enterprise network
- Highly experienced and versatile

👓Ajit Krishna N.R
- Co-founder & CTO
- BEng CS, Statistics OSL (BC group), Freehunter, Crisp Analytics.
- Programming, Machine Learning, Web/App, Monitoring, Blockchain, Databases, Distributed Computing, Automation, Scraping

🧳Cameron
- 創辦人及行政總裁
- 於香港大學攻讀生物科技及科技創業學士
創業家
- 42 Lab, 香港國際欖球隊成員
- 於香港創業界擁有廣泛人脈，豐富創業經驗

👓Ajit Krishna N.R
- 創辦人及科技總監
- 於香港大學攻讀電腦科學學士
- 曾於OSL, Freehunter 及Crisp Analytic擔任開發人員
- 擁有軟件及網站開發，以及機器學習方面等經驗

14/08/2020

Hollo is joined by the other Asian Finalists of Microsoft Imagine Cup for our Asia Bootcamp session at 7:50 GMT+8 at

Tune in to hear what the teams have to share, and send in your questions to the stream! 🔥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-JSqC6qxgY&feature=youtu.be

Innovate with passion to tackle global issues and bring your tech solutions to life in the Imagine Cup 🏆 Imagine Cup is Microsoft's annual student tech compe...

02/08/2020

What We Offer 我們的服務
- Single flow early detection
- Emotion detection
- Sleep quality detection
- Heart rate that indicates stress level
- Ai driven early intervention
- Behaviour pattern recognition
- Simple dashboard
- Track what affects your mental health using suggestive mental health analysis with 86% AUC

初步情緒評估
- 協助監察情緒起伏
- 監察睡眠質素
- 以心跳率監察用戶壓力程度人工智能分析系統
- 分析用戶行為及情緒變化
- 以簡單易明的儀表板顯示數據提供86%AUC預測值的分析使用戶理解影響情緒起伏的因素

29/07/2020

👋🏽Who We Are 認識我們

Hollo envisions a future of tech-based, accessible, and comprehensive personal health management tools. As a Smart AI Powered Preventative platform, Hollo, aims at improving the mental health of individuals by integrating Machine Learning with suggestive diagnosis, therapy, and continual monitoring, facilitating self-help and professional therapeutic services. By reducing the need for additional technology (wearables), we make this new tracking technology accessible for less privileged communities in the world

Hollo旨在以科技創造一個更全面及容易使用的情緒管理平台。運用人工智能及大數據，Hollo的平台及手機軟體能使用戶輕易地監察及管理他們的心理狀況，並根據他們的狀況為其介紹合適的情緒治療, 包括不同的情緒管理訓練，甚至轉介他們接受專業的心理輔導。我們旨在為渴望管理自己心理健康的青少年減少其在此方面的金錢壓力， 令更多有需要人士可以得到情緒上的支援。

18/06/2020

Did you miss our founders sharing session with iDendron? Catch us talking about our experience as founders, the inspiration behind Hollo and listen in for a sneak peak into how our technology works!

15/06/2020

Catch our founders talking in a Live session with HKU iDendron. We'll be talking in detail about our inspirations, difficulties that founders experience and how we are planning to move forward in the future!

HKU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Hub iDendron presents the “Meet HKU Startup Founders” series. You are invited to join us online to meet Cameron van Breda, Piyush Jha and Ajit Krishna, co-founders of Microsoft Imagine Cup World Champion Hollo. They will share their project’s prospect and chal...

19/05/2020

It's Official!!!! World. Champions of Microsoft Imagine Cup. Thank you so much to everyone that has supported us!!! This is only the beginning!🔥🔥🔥🔥

The 18th annual Imagine Cup saw thousands of students across the world submitting innovations to impact their communities, both locally and globally. The competition advanced through hackathons, Online Semifinals, and virtual Regional Final events bringing together finalists via Microsoft Teams. Six...

18/05/2020

Join our Co-founders at the digital Microsoft Build event this coming Wednesday! Our team Hollo will be there to walk through our tech solution built for the mental health industry and share our learning journey as Microsoft Asia’s Imagine Cup Global Qualifiers and Asian Champions.

Register for our session (COM168) to join us LIVE at the digital Microsoft Build event on May 20, 3PM - 4:45PM HKT: https://mybuild.microsoft.com/

See you there!

P.S Look through the digital catalogue to find the Imagine Cup Session to watch us pitch in the Global Final!

28/04/2020

🔥🔥🔥🙌 Thanks to StartUpBeat for this article on our founder's and their progress in Microsoft Imagine Cup! We're very thankful for all the coverage we're getting in Hong Kong!! Stay tuned for more details!
(The Article is in Chinese, but the translation is relatively good!!)

香港大學學生開發的手機應用程式Hollo，運用人工智能及機器學習等技術，分析及記錄用戶的日常行為模式和情緒變化，最近更成功在微軟「Imagine Cup 亞洲區決賽」脫穎而出。

14/04/2020

Thanks UNWIRE.HK and UNWIRE.PRO for the feature! It was great getting to know you all and to be able to share our story with you.

For our English speaking friends, the gist of the video is them covering our team’s journey as we build an accessible mental health companion to be used by all people and therapists. With our recent win in Microsoft's Imagine Cup as Asian Champions, we'll be running our pilot tests soon!

Especially with the current circumstances, we believe we can really make a difference in society and we hope to launch for public use by the end of year.