Artefact 5 - Self-generated Therapeutic Material

The aim for Artefact 5 is to find the best technology available to provide a template for a user to create their own therapeutic material. This step stems from the conclusions of Artefact 4:

Artefact 4:

• Personal content is more capable of helping the viewer into a more relaxed mood
• Although the person who watched the edit of their personal content felt more relaxed by that clip than the "general" relaxing clip, so did the control participant.
• A higher level of entertainment (engagement rather) seems to increase the calming effect
• Inconsistency in the content may hinder effectiveness

Since it has been established that personal visual content has the strongest effect, finding out if a person can create their own edit of material through existing technology and determining what aspects are/aren't beneficial becomes significant.

The next step is to conduct research into the technologies available to users who want to use images and audio to produce audiovisual material.