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Motivating expressive writing with a text-to-sound application

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Writing about emotional experiences has been shown to have long-term physical and mental health benefits, but it also creates short-term discomfort. We designed a system to motivate expressive writing by enhancing enjoyment and pleasure. Using automated language analysis, we designed a system that maps sound onto categories of language resulting in a musical interpretation of expressive writing texts. An experimental design compared the experience of 126 participants across musical and non-musical writing platforms Participants found the musical system to be more pleasurable.

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CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 2010
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ISBN:9781605589299
DOI:10.1145/1753326
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  1. creative tool
  2. expressive writing
  3. health
  4. music system
  5. sound mapping
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