Hosted by HiveMinds. Workshop Content, Facilitation, and Judging by Patricia at WonderLead
hearTTales
Every Feeling Has a Story Komal Jadhav
1 in 5 children face emotional, mental, or behavioural difficulties — creating a communication gap that impacts social and emotional well-being. hearTTales helps children explore emotions through interactive stories while giving parents simple, non-clinical conversation starters.
// The product
What it does
An AI-powered interactive storytelling platform for children aged 5–12. Kids pick a mood, choose an adventure, make choices through a branching story, reflect on how they feel — and parents get a simple insights dashboard with conversation starters.
Not a therapy platform, diagnostic tool, or mental health assessment — emotional literacy through storytelling.
Five-screen journey
- Welcome & Mood Selection — Happy, Sad, Angry, Nervous, Excited, Confused
- Story Recommendations — mood-matched adventures
- Interactive Story — e.g. Rex's First Day at School
- Reflection — mood → story → final emotion
- Parent Dashboard — insights & conversation starters
AI features (MVP)
- Story recommendation — mood in → relevant stories out
- Insight generation — choices + reflection → parent-friendly summary
Primary KPI: Story Journey Completion Rate
// Judging
Criteria
Problem clarity (25%) · Working product (30%) · AI-native (25%) · Demo quality (20%)
Next steps: prompt engineering to rely less on prompt tools, and a clearer restart flow after pausing the story.
// Build process
Tools used
Komal wrote a full product spec (screens, data model, AI constraints, disclaimer) and shipped a polished prototype in one workshop session — despite Kiro install issues on a space-constrained machine.
If she had 1 more hour
Voice inputs so kids with vision impairment can use hearTTales too.
One thing learned
There are multiple tools available to build your product — it's not about which tool you use, but how refined the product is.