Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2018. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-77). / Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings make sense of the world. Animated movies tell stories that engage audience across culture and age groups. I designed and built My Personalized Movies (MPM), a novel system where animated stories are automatically created based on data provided by individuals. The data include self-tracked mood and behavior captured in quantitative measures and descriptive text. MPM is designed to engage viewers through an emotive narrative, induce self-reflection about their mood and behavior patterns, and to improve self-compassion and self-esteem, which mediates behavior change. I demonstrate with a few stages of studies, involving in total 107 participants, that viewers show strong emotional engagement with MPM and can explicitly connect animated characters' stories to one's past experiences. An analysis of 22 participants' facial expression data during MPM reveals that participants' change in implicit self-esteem is positively correlated with the happiness of their facial expression. Participants with higher depression severity, as measured by PHQ9, showed less positive facial expression at the happy moments in the animation. / by Fengjiao Peng. / S.M.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/120674 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Peng, Fengjiao |
| Contributors | Rosalind W. Picard., Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 81 pages, application/pdf |
| Rights | MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission., http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 |
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