DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPEUTIC ART APPLICATION WITH DIGITAL COLORING AND FREEFORM ART

• Main Author: Natalia Edelin, Clarisa
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/76498
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Mental health issues among college students were increasing over time, which caused by various factors, from academic pressures, social environment, to COVID-19 pandemic impact. However, a lot of students were not fully aware of their mental health conditions or knowing when they should seek professional help. Therefore, a therapeutic art application was developed to help the student recognize their mental health condition. Therapeutic art application was an application that aimed to assist students to process and express their emotion and mental burdens through creating art. The application also offered mental health condition test and therapeutic art medium to help students in self-reflection and expressing their feelings. By utilizing therapeutic art activities, the therapeutic art application served as a method for students to release their emotions. The therapeutic art activities offered digital coloring and freeform or self-guided art. After the application development was completed, User Experience Testing was conducted with 25 participants for each platform. From the testing, the results showed that for the Android platform, the pragmatic quality was above average and the hedonic quality was excellent. As for the Web platform, both pragmatic quality and hedonic quality received excellent ratings. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the art activities was also tested on seven participants, and the results showed that the respondents felt better after engaging in art therapy.