I worked on this project back in 2005-2006 when I was finishing my psychology thesis at York University in psychology. I was looking for something interesting to stimulate and enhance my research background and wanted to work with a well known and very creative theoretical physicist, Dr. Charles Lumsden. Dr.Lumsden had just started working on a project with his colleagues called MAAC, which was short for ‘Mood Assessment via Animated Characters’. It was a very creative project in child and adolescent psychiatry where they developed a game of sorts for children to assess their feelings probing for mood and anxiety disorders, where they watched a character act out 16 distinct salient mood states and reported if each feeling as accurate or not on a scale. What made this project novel was the assessment is done through a tablet pc and the youth play along. Its quite diffuclt conducting a structured clinical interview with tweens and teens so this is an alternative option which is still being evaluated today. I was responsible for painting the backgrounds for each distinct mood state.

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