By: Ivan Marchenko
Purposes
Purposes
This project creates a basis for a program that will later
be used to automate Symbolic Picture Story Inventory (SPSI). This inventory is
used to analyze the symbolic stories that define the identity of individuals
and groups. These stories help understand the logic behind a certain type of
choices and behavior.
The method works as follows:
·
Client chooses the main heroes of his/her story:
picks a picture that will represent himself/herself and then pictures that
represent other significant heroes that should act in the analyzed context
(those pictures may be warriors, princesses, animals etc.)
·
Client chooses the environment (roads,
mountains, caves, woods, houses, castles, walls, rivers etc.) and arranges the
“stage” for heroes to act
·
Client places the heroes on the stage to show
the logic of the story
·
Client answers several questions regarding the
logic of the story
·
The resulting picture and answers are then
analyzed by a psychologist
The basic module of the program allows the user to construct
the picture choosing from a categorized menu of pictures. This version contains
pictures that are downloaded from the web, whereas the final version will
feature the pictures that will be drawn specifically for SPSI and will have
options of choosing different positions of the object (limited 3D rotation).
SPSI pictures will be black and white and emotionally ambiguous.
Functionality
This version features only the basic functions of the future
program. Full version will allow user not only to draw the picture, but also
tell the story that is depicted by answering questions. It will also allow the
researcher to automatically analyze the picture by calculating object sizes,
positions etc. This version allows to do the following:
·
Choose image to insert by specifying the
category and the type in the dropdown menu
·
Insert the picture to the drawing area by
clicking on it
·
Arrange inserted objects to form the picture
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