Releasing stress using music mood application: DeMuse

Listening to music can reduce stress. This research is to study the development of music mood application called DeMuse. It mainly concerns with the users' favorable and recommended music genre. In addition, DeMuse will be presented in health and fitness category of mood music based mobile application. In order to complete DeMuse, it will carry out the identification of the features for the particular mobile app (DeMuse), identification of the music and mood categories respectively. DeMuse will then equipped with the general features of music application and meditation purpose. Besides, it also contains the properties of organizing favourite music and theme. In the development of DeMuse, a methodology named Mobile-D is being applied. From this methodology, it might help us to make sure that a detail analysis to be done, every single functionality that needed will not be missed out, and increase the efficiency of work distribution and time spending. After that, several prototype might release in order to test by the target users, and hence building a strong interaction bond with users, so that a complete and successful DeMuse able to satisfy the communities. Thus, this music mood application was expected to decrease users' stress level with suitable music therapy. DeMuse displays a series of proper category music which follow users' emotion to relief users' stress level in daily life in order to prevent direct and indirect negative impacts.

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