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Daydream: A Healing Game for Mitigating Quarantine-induced Negative Emotions with Music Adventure

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CHI PLAY '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3383668.3419928

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Many people all over the world still suffer from the stress induced by quarantine and social distancing during the coronavirus outbreak, and it is a topic of significance to manage negative feelings and emotions when considering mental health and wellness. Our questions are: "Can a game help people maintain mental health and wellness in such a situation?" and "Will virtual escape from isolation in the game help people feel better in reality?" Therefore, with the design concept of a "healing game", we developed Daydream, a game that combines puzzles and interactive music-making experiences with the design concept of a "healing game" to help players slow down, relax, and imagine. In Daydream, players collect magic objects that can retrieve the main character's memories and unfold her imagination, allowing players to enter a musical adventure. While this research project is still in the early stage, we conducted a preliminary user study and the feedback from the participant were generally positive to our design concept and game design. We believe such a design concept of a 'healing game' would be promising as an interesting research topic in serious games.

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Daydream: A Healing Game for Mitigating Quarantine-induced Negative Emotions with Music Adventure
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Media arts
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
  2. Interaction design

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Lee ALee JAhn SLee Y(2023)MindTerior: A Mental Healthcare Game with Metaphoric Gamespace and Effective Activities for Mitigating Mild Emotional DifficultiesExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3583831(1-6)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544549.3583831
Boldi ARapp A(2023)Making sense of the pandemicInternational Journal of Human-Computer Studies10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103141180:COnline publication date: 1-Dec-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103141
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