Mood Mapping

"Mood Mapping" and graphing many other sorts of things (like symptoms, weight, medications and treatments, etc.) is another way of revealing the self and communicating on this website. It falls in line with what I find find to be the main route of self-identification: labels. Labels play an important role in the PLM website's communication and personal page characteristics. People can put themselves into easy categories through mood mapping, using predetermined (by the site) labels to show the world, and themselves, a simple chart of who they are and who they have been in the past. We'll cover communication through labeling more in a later post. First of all, what does mood mapping look like? What does the patient profile chart history look like?



As you can see, though it's small, the charts appear as color-coded, nicely labeled and viewable lines and waves dictated by dots of progress. With red generally meaning worse, and lighter colors usually meaning good. In the second photo snap you can see a different line for every symptom that goes along with the condition that this person has been diagnosed with. This allows people the opportunity to communicate with producing content of their own, but simply applying labels to their feelings. This can aid in a very streamlined look for each patient profile, easily understood by others, and easily organized by the user - without frustration. Keeping up with it and updating your every feeling could end up being the hard part.