As a product observer in the Internet era, I have always adhered to a cautious, cautious, and cautious attitude when it comes to AI payment.
One is that I feel that many products have not yet figured out what to do, and the products have changed greatly, so I will worry about continuity; The other is that many products that need to be paid for can be found free or even expensive replacements, so it is not very necessary. Of course, most of the products on the market are still playing the information gap, and what we are doing ourselves is to break the information gap.
So to date, I've only subscribed to three products in a row:Midjourney, ChatGPT, and Woods Healing Room.
I understand that when you see these three products side by side, it might look something like:Ma Huateng, Zhang Yiming and me.
And this sense of contrast, which is not at all on the same order of magnitude, is also the origin of this topic.
Unlike ChatGPT, which directly changed an era and Midjourney, which greatly promoted the development of Wenshengtu, Linjian Chat Room has almost no technological innovation, its core functions are also highly substitutable, and its product form is closer to the previous generation of Internet products.
Despite this, I still paid him a 30-day VIP subscription fee of 28 yuan for two consecutive months. There are three reasons for this
1. As an ordinary user, I have received the care and warmth that other similar AI companion AI ** AI interactive products have not been able to provide in the Forest Chat Healing Room.
2. Although it is vertically in the relatively subdivided track of emotion, it is indeed very fine, and it is really fine, integrating text, audio, and other carriers to help users recognize and heal emotions.
3. As an author, I personally believe that the business opportunities of AI entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized Internet companies under the AI wave are more likely to appear in this kind of specific and small-scale attempts, so I support it with my own actions.
However, the results of the Forest Chat Healing Room are indeed not good, according to the data, since its launch in August 2023, the Forest Chat Healing Room has been updated 14 times, but the cumulative number of times has only 10,000**, of which 47% is from Chinese mainland, and the income is even more pitiful, only less than $200.
But that doesn't prevent the Forest Healing Room from giving a good example of AI healing emotions.
"Infuse" emotions into AI to heal humanity
First of all, Healing Room in the Forest chose beige and green as the main colors of the product; Secondly, whether it is the user's **atar, icon, or animal healer, it is all cute painting style; In addition, from the moment the user enters the app, they can hear the white noise of the forest, creating a relaxing atmosphere for the user from various aspects such as vision and hearing.
Before entering the "chatting and healing", users need to choose the chatterer they are interested in among the three animals with different styles and backgrounds: Huahuaci, Gugu Bear, and Sensen Deer.
After many experiences, different therapists do have certain differences in conversation habits and expressions, and there will be some differences in the content they are good at, although the degree of difference is still relatively limited, but it does increase the interest of the conversation. And the truly interesting and warm service also starts with the chat.
Sentiment analysis
Users can have a conversation with the AI animal therapist through text and voiceAnimal Therapist will automatically analyze the different emotions and emotional concentrations in each of the user's expressions. For example, 20% confusion, 30% bravery, 20% sadness, and 30% expectation, etc., can help users better understand their emotions and identify problems.
The animal therapist will give targeted suggestions or emotional companionship according to the specific content and feelings expressed by the user.
A more detailed setting here is that after listening to the user's expression, the animal therapist will generally start with "I can understand your feelings" and "Although I can't fully empathize, I can experience some", etc., to increase the user's desire to share emotions and stand with the user.
Cognitive restructuring
When users confide their confusion or troubles to the therapist, the system will automatically trigger the cognitive reconstruction page, and help users analyze "triggers, illusions and thinking" in the form of mind maps, which is conducive to helping users sort out specific problems and get out of confusion.
From the author's actual experience, although the analysis is still relatively shallow, it does provide help for dealing with some simple problems.
Healing**and**
Animal Therapists will pop up "jukebox" and "healing**" at the right time, trying to use multiple sensory modes to help users better release their emotions.
The healing** triggered by the author has different forms of snowflakes, a person camping by the river, the scenery during self-driving, making brown sugar in the form of ancient methods, etc., and the cooperation of the background** can indeed immerse people in**.
And in the process of ***, it will not consume the user's daily chat time, and the system will automatically pause the time until the end of the ***. In addition, users can see the comments of other users, or interact with other users in the comment area, and from the user feedback, everyone is satisfied with the ** chosen by the forest chat room.
After the chat ends, the system will automatically organize the content of the conversation between the user and the animal therapist and conduct a summary analysis, and record all the conversations in the form of "chat healing notes", refine the main content of the conversation, and generate an emotional change curve.
Emotional journey
The Forest Healing Room will also automatically unlock the "Emotional Journey" after the user completes a conversation and the user's **atar will embark on the journey of emotional healing on behalf of the user, and send back what they have seen and heard along the way in the form of a diary and **.
Each time a user goes on a healing journey, they will unlock different locations, meet different people, and have different stories depending on the user's mood.
Taking the Lost Journey as an example, we passed through the Clover Cafe, the Chat Room, the Forest Library, the Hakushi Ramen Restaurant, the Camping Grassland, the Meadow** Live, the Nostalgic Record Store, and the Convenience Store.
On the other hand, the irritability tour passed by the Boxi Ramen Restaurant, the Camping Grassland, the Forest Library, the Film Cinema, the Sky Street, the More Art Museum and the Night Market.
Savor the emotional journey, The Forest Healing Room allows users to **atar the places where they are all common but relaxing, and in the process, users are not only being helped, being **, but also helping others. In addition to conveying the attitude of looking up at the sky and walking with your head down, users are encouraged to experience and enjoy every moment of life, and get real feelings in specific people and things.
In the journey of **atar, you will meet both NPCs and other users' **ATAR, and when users are interested in each other's **atar chat history, they can also initiate a conversation with the user himself.
The woods are getting more and more visible
The Healing Room is a page where users can discover other users' **atar, current emotional state, and a summary of their last conversation with an animal therapist, and greet them directly when they are interested in their records.
Of course, users can also choose whether to make the therapist diary public and whether to accept greeting messages from strangers, but from the author's actual experience, the response rate is almost equal to about 0, I don't know if it's because of the limited user base, or the current users who have no social needs on the platform.
Mind reading cards
In addition to the basic chat healing, users can also use the "mind reading card" function in the process of chatting and healing, the user randomly and blindly draws one card in the card, and describes the AI-generated card information through voice or text, and selects the main emotional theme of the card according to their own understanding and explains it specifically, the system will analyze the user according to the content entered by the user, and give "personality, moment, flash point and message", which can help users better understand their core and current emotions.
To be honest, accuracy occasionally fails, but this form of drawing tarot cards does enhance the fun of chatting, and the form of drawing, explaining, selecting, judging, and summarizing is also worth learning and learning from other products.
In addition, as an emotional** app, the Forest Chat Healing Room always gives people a very heartfelt feeling, even if the user talks to an animal healer again after a long time, he will still say "Shein, remember the last time you said you xxx, how is it, is this question still bothering you", as if a very small thing of oneself has become important here in TA.
To put it mildly, Chat Room in the Forest seems to be trying to fill in the emotions and feelings that AI lacks in a product-set way.
And the reason why such a delicate and sincere product can be designed may be related to the fact that Guangzhou Xinjiyuan Information Technology, the manufacturer of the Forest Chat Healing Room, launched the emotional ** product Heart Island Diary as early as 2020.
A "long-planned" **
Xindao Diary also received angel round financing from many institutions and companies such as Xirong Shandao, Shulian, and Jiaye in 2021.
Heart Island Diary currently has 5274 ratings on the App Store in China and maintains a 4With a high score of 8, many users left their stories of using Heart Island Diary in the comment area, and many people mentioned that Heart Island Diary provided a lot of effective help during their emotional difficulties.
From the point of view of product form, Heart Island Diary is more complex, and currently has 5 first-level tabs such as Resonance Sea, Island Friends, Heart Island, Diary, I, etc., and provides emotional recording, **atar and virtual space decoration, voice room, chat healing, emotional information flow and other functions, from the perspective of affiliation, the forest chat room is a bit of an enlarged version of the heart island diary chat room.
In fact, the way of recording emotions in Heart Island Diary is also very interesting, and users need toMood dashboardSelect your mood type and drag the progress bar to select the mood concentration from "a little" to "very much".
And choose the cause of emotions in school, family, friends, love, health, study, work, games, self-discipline, sleep, weather and other dimensions, and share them with other users in the form of a diary or drifting.
The author has seen a lot of simplicity and truth that are rare in today's Internet era in the emotional information flow, and the emotions shared by users are very specific and true stories, some people are confused because of the failure of the graduate school entrance examination, some people are concerned because of the sensitivity of the counselor, some people are bored because of the Spring Festival marriage urging, and some people are excited to meet good teammates because of the werewolf killing, happy because they have taken a good-looking **, and proud of insisting on English words to punch in.
These real emotions make up the world of Heart Island, and the Healing Room in the Forest also hatches from it.
The results of Heart Island Diary are much better than that of Forest Chat Room, and it is on 9 app stores, including the App Store, basically each app store has more than 20,000 users, of which more than 7 percent of the users are women, mainly young users.
Despite this, from the perspective of product development, Heart Island Diary is more like a niche emotional social product from the last Internet cycle, while Forest Chat Healing Room has built a more wonderful spiritual small world because of the full application of AI Wenshengwen, AI Wensheng Diagram and AI audio interaction.
At present, there are many platforms for mood recording and emotional healing at home and abroad, and mood monitoring has always been a popular track overseas, and mental health apps such as Calm and Headspace are also frequent visitors to Beluga whale's articles on going to sea.
For example, Calm will customize different daily mindfulness according to the user's usage habits and emotional state, and Aura will integrate human coaches and AI coaches to help users better calm downAI, like a product that uses AI entirely to train mindfulness.
However, there are still few products that carry AI to the end and can play a certain role like the Forest Chat Room, but we did find some cases, if you are interested in AI meditation, AI emotional healing or AI mental health, please leave a message in the comment area to let us know, we will launch an AI emotion topic in the next two weeks. Of course, you are also welcome to share with us the AI products you paid for.