EmoJar: Collecting and Reliving Happy and Memorable Media Moments

This paper explores the potential of media and how it can be leveraged to create a tool to help individuals become more aware of their emotions and promote their psychological wellbeing. It discusses main motivation and background and presents EmoJar, an interactive application being designed and developed to allow users to collect and review media that have significant impact and remind them of the good things they experience along time. EmoJar is based on the Happiness Jar concept that gets enriched with media and its emotional impact, as an extension to Media4WellBeing, aligning with the goals and approaches of Positive Psychology and Positive Computing.