Human emotions are essentially molded by lived experiences, from which we construct personalised meaning. The engagement in such meaning-making process has been practiced as an intervention in various psychotherapies to promote wellness. Nevertheless, to support recollecting and recounting lived experiences in everyday life remains under explored in HCI. It also remains unknown how technologies such as generative AI models can facilitate the meaning making process, and ultimately support affective mindfulness. In this paper we present Metamorpheus, an affective interface that engages users in a creative visual storytelling of emotional experiences during dreams. Metamorpheus arranges the storyline based on a dream's emotional arc, and provokes self-reflection through the creation of metaphorical images and text depictions. The system provides metaphor suggestions, and generates visual metaphors and text depictions using generative AI models, while users can apply generations to recolour and re-arrange the interface to be visually affective. Our experience-centred evaluation manifests that, by interacting with Metamorpheus, users can recall their dreams in vivid detail, through which they relive and reflect upon their experiences in a meaningful way.

翻译：人类情感本质上由生活经历塑造，我们从这些经历中构建个性化的意义。参与这种意义建构过程已被作为促进心理健康的干预手段应用于多种心理治疗中。然而，在HCI领域，如何支持对日常生活经历的回溯与叙述仍未被充分探索。此外，诸如生成式AI模型等技术如何促进意义建构过程，并最终支持情感正念（affective mindfulness），仍是未知数。本文介绍了Metamorpheus——一种情感化界面，它使用户能够以创造性的视觉叙事方式表达梦境中的情感体验。Metamorpheus基于梦境的情感弧线来编排故事线，并通过创作隐喻性图像与文字描述来激发自我反思。该系统提供隐喻建议，并利用生成式AI模型生成视觉隐喻与文字描述，用户可应用生成的素材重新着色并重新排列界面，使其具有视觉情感效果。我们的体验中心评估表明，通过与Metamorpheus交互，用户能够生动地回忆起梦境细节，从而以有意义的方式重新体验并反思其经历。