Example: portrait of Alma Winograd-Diaz from Undone
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As an initial example, let's create a mood portrait of fictional character Alma Winograd-Diaz, the main character from the tv series Undone
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Participation
- Develop the descriptions of behavior from the series.
- Contribute descriptions of behavior known from real-life people who report similar feelings or show similar behaviors.
- Contribute descriptions of consequences seen in the real-world from similar behavior.
Initial proposal: create a rating/chart system based on Sustainable Functionality and Paralytic Dysfunction for describable mood states.
Generic Outline to generate keywords
- Event happens
- Reactions
- Feelings
- Thoughts
- Feelings
- Character sets expectations
- Character takes action
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Results from the action
- Describe the gaps between what the character's expectations and what actually happened
- Describe the gaps between what the character's expectations and what actually happened
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Consequences - how the individual and people around her were effected and any long-term consequences of the character's behavior
- Depending on what the consequences are, the placement of more functional, less functional, sustainable or unsustainable might be able to be qualitatively compared to other behaviors and consequences.
Together this information can paint an element of the portrait
- Event: the event happens before the Scene starts.
- Feelings: overwhelmed, frustrated, angry, impulsive
- Behavior: pounding on the steering wheel while driving, not focusing on the road, continuing to accelerate while driving and not focused on task; ran lights and stop signs. Consequence: another driver hits her and she suffers a brain injury.
- Hallucination: Event: she sees fabric of reality distort
- Feelings: Startled
- Actions: looks at the hallucination and stops looking at the road at all.
- Consequences: another car collides with her. She gets a brain injury.
Depression, apathy - lack of interest in anything, feeling numb in life, feels every day is the same. (First couple of minutes)
Grandiosity and communication with higher design/being
High risk-taking
Hallucinations
Apathy
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Self-portraiture
Forms and apps are provided to help a person create their self-portrait. A dynamic self-portrait provides ways for the person and those whom the individual needs to communicate with develop a picture of how states feel, what behavior happens, what common reactions are, and add interventions that patient finds helpful.