Towards Media for Wellbeing

ABSTRACT

Media has the potential to generate attitudes and emotions and influence our state of mind, our health, happiness and sense of wellbeing, and it is becoming pervasive in our lives. This paper explores the potential of advances in neuroscience and informatics to support people in becoming more aware of and in regulating their emotional states and sense of wellbeing, which is aligned with the aims and scope of positive computing. It presents main motivation and concepts, a preliminary user survey to learn about the relation of people with media, in this context, and Media4Wellbeing, an interactive media application being designed and developed to access, explore and visualize media based on their impact on emotional states and sense of wellbeing, using physiological sensors.

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Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Computer vision

      • Computer vision problems

        • Video segmentation

      • Computer vision tasks

        • Video summarization

      • Image and video acquisition

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)