How can we help prevent relationship abuse?
I propose a personal mobile application to elicit emotional self-awareness in women. With the practice of journaling and the aid of sentiment analysis, users can identify healthy and unhealthy patterns.
Concept
Mindy is a mobile application designed for teenage women. With the practice of journaling we encourage critical and independent thinking in the formative years of emotional intelligence. By creating emotional awareness, users become able to detect damaging behavioral patterns of themselves and those around them, to either fix them or avoid them. The application is a step forward towards the protection of women’s autonomy and empowerment.
Emotion Tracker: Visualization System
Using an atomic approach, the figure of the user is placed in the center of the plane. Around it there is a ring that represents a preferred time lapse. On this timeline-like ring, emotions are represented with thick lines with their assigned color. These lines represent the duration of emotion.
Classification
This Sentiment Analysis system uses an altered version of Parrot’s classification of emotions which results in five primary categories: Love, Joy, Sadness, Fear and Anger. Within each primary group lie a secondary emotion classification. Adjustments were made to distinctly separate positive and negative realms of emotions.
Journaling
The user manually inputs entries of relevant moments of their everyday life. The display of entries is ordered chronologically in the main Journal screen. From there, the user can see the past entries, get suggestions of relevant moments, search, or filter them.
From feeling to words: Situational tags
These tags have the purpose of allowing the user the recognition of patterns of emotional or behavioral nature. They derive from secondary emotion and experiential bases. They intend to be more colloquial, specific, and direct than the broader scope of primary emotion classification. This level of specificity can be beneficial for the detection of early patterns of abuse: charm, whirlwind romance, possessiveness, criticism, testing limits, blaming others.
People
In this section the user can manage and see the people they interact with in detail.
The application offers a conclusion based on the stability and orientation of the registered emotions.
The application offers a conclusion based on the stability and orientation of the registered emotions.
System functioning
Beyond the flow of the user through the alternatives of navigation, it is important to understand
the symbolic functioning of the application - the intervention of the system as an assistant and the user as an involved agent in the process of awareness generation.
the symbolic functioning of the application - the intervention of the system as an assistant and the user as an involved agent in the process of awareness generation.
