Exploring emotions through painting, photography and expressive writing: An early experimental user study

Carla Nave; Nuno Correia; Teresa Romão

doi:10.1145/3001773.3001790

Exploring emotions through painting, photography and expressive writing: An early experimental user study

Carla Nave, Nuno Correia, Teresa Romão

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Abstract

This paper presents a working prototype of PaintMyEmotions, an interactive self-reflection instrument that allows individuals to assess, express and monitor their affective states in a fun and engaging way. Despite the ever-increasing popularity of eHealth technologies, online interventions and research studies often present severe problems of attrition (low adherence to the program and/or high drop-out rates). To increase the chances for success of our project and subsequent research, we decided to test early and often, involving users from the beginning, in an iterative design cycle. In this article, we describe the process and the results of an early exploratory user study, where we analyzed the performance and usability of a working prototype, studied its potential, and explored aspects like engagement and joy of use.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2016)
Publisher	ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
Volume	Part F125634
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-4773-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3001773.3001790
Publication status	Published - 9 Nov 2016
Event	13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2016 - Osaka, Japan Duration: 9 Nov 2016 → 12 Nov 2016

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Conference	13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2016
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	9/11/16 → 12/11/16

Keywords

Affective computing
Ehealth
Human-computer interaction
Interaction and experience design
Interactive art
Personal informatics
Positive computing
Social impact
Usability and playability
User-centered design
Wellbeing

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Nave, C., Correia, N., & Romão, T. (2016). Exploring emotions through painting, photography and expressive writing: An early experimental user study. In Proceedings - 13th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2016) (Vol. Part F125634). Article a19 ACM - Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3001773.3001790

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Exploring emotions through painting, photography and expressive writing: An early experimental user study. / Nave, Carla ; Correia, Nuno ; Romão, Teresa.
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