Authors:
Teresa Chambel
and
Pedro Carvalho
Affiliation:
LASIGE, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Interactive Media Content, Wellbeing, Emotions, Positive Computing, Self-assessment, Sensors, Multimodality, Happiness Jar, Personal Journal.
Abstract:
Experiencing digital media content is among the most accessible and beloved recreational activities people indulge in. It can promote learning and creative thinking, as well as being an important source of entertainment, with a great impact in our emotions. In particular, it has the power to foster positive emotions and attitudes, to regulate or enhance our mood, contributing to our general sense of wellbeing and quality of life. This paper discusses and explores the potential of media and how it can be addressed to create a tool to help individuals become more aware of their emotions and promote their psychological wellbeing. It discusses main motivation and background and presents EmoJar, an interactive web application designed and developed to allow users to collect and relive media that have significant impact and remind them of the good things they experience along time in their lives. EmoJar is based on the Happiness Jar concept, enriched here with media and its emotional impac
t, as an extension to Media4WellBeing, aligning with the goals and approaches of Positive Psychology and Positive Computing. User evaluation results were very encouraging in terms of perceived usefulness, usability and user experience. Future work will lead us further in the aim to provide a useful and interesting digital experience that further supports users in their journey of personal awareness and development.
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