Google has officially unveiled the list of the best apps and games of 2020 on its Play Store platform, and the biggest award for the best app of 2020 has gone home to the startup’s Wysa meditation and sleep aid app. india, called ‘Sleep Stories for Peaceful Sleep – Meditate with Wysa’. Describing the app on its awards page, Google’s description read: “Sleep by Wysa wowed us like no other app this year, with its innovative approach to improving sleep. Explore tools and exercises that calm the mind using cognitive therapy. Behavioral Insomnia (CBT-i), and relax with an evening journal and meditation. You can even get personal counseling in one-on-one sessions with a sleep therapist. “
Founded by Indian entrepreneur Jo Aggarwal, Wysa has been working on the development of an artificial intelligence chatbot model that focuses on human aspects such as empathy. One of the key areas he is working on is teaching the AI model how to react to emotions, thereby offering mental health assistance to those in need. The ‘Sleep Stories’ app that has been judged the best app of 2020 on the Google Play Store is a diversified offering from the Aggarwal startup, which uses the same chatbot to help facilitate sleep. For many, the COVID-19
The pandemic has caused multiple problems as we go through sweeping lifestyle changes. An app like this can, therefore, help alter the fabric of thinking around sleep management and sleep-related disorders, justifying its position as the best Android app of 2020.
In a previous interview with News18, Aggarwal, the founder of Wysa, said of the technology she is trying to build: “Creating empathy is a combination of science and art. Science focuses on building robust AI models using our 100 million conversations. to understand user input (we have over 100 of these), to recognize a range of emotions such as anger, pain, sadness or anxiety. The art of this is to write content in a way that is robust, builds on evidence-based techniques and review and driven clinical input. However, you should feel approachable and friendly, and use colloquial language that is easy to understand. ” The ‘Sleep Stories’ app is an extension of Wysa’s main chatbot app, which has a 4.7 rating on the Google Play Store out of over 66,000 ratings and reviews.
Among other categories, Indian apps that appeared alongside big world titles include the winner of MyGov’s Aatmanirbhar App Challenge, Koo, a microblogging app similar to Twitter, but based solely on vernacular languages. Short video app Moj, created by Sharechat after the TikTok ban in India, has also appeared on Google charts, along with MX TakaTak, Bolkar, and Pratilipti FM. Each of these apps has been featured as a nominee in the ‘2020 user choice app’ category, while Koo has also been voted one of the best apps in the everyday essentials category. MyStore, Bolkar and ‘apna Job Search’ from Indian startup Khatabook have excelled in personal growth, while Moj, TakaTak and Pratilipti FM have been awarded in the category of ‘best apps for fun’.
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