SnapAppy: A positive psychology intervention using smartphone photography to improve emotional well-being

Momentary photography is enjoyed by many smartphone users, especially with the popularity of apps such as Snapchat and Instagram. Many traditional positive psychology interventions focus on lengthy writing tasks to express emotions experienced during past events, acts kindness gratuitous situations. In this work we developed SnapAppy, a application integrate momentary intervention methodologies conduct month-long improve emotional well-being. A study involving 74 participants aimed assess whether photo-taking, photo viewing image contents are correlated improvements in certain aspects participant’s well-being including their mood, affect satisfaction life. The results indicated that features number photos, variety categories, effort applied annotating photos revisited taken people were positively an improvement mood negative (PANAS).