AH_While We Wait: Animation for Health and Wellbeing in Hospital Waiting Spaces

This proposal addresses the lack of significant research in the field of animation and its potential to impact on the health and wellbeing of young people in stressful situations in healthcare contexts particularly in waiting spaces for attending patients and accompanying family or caregivers. Artists and scholars have identified the “Haptic Eye” linking the screen/vision and sensation, but it still proves elusive in practice and in evidence-based studies. Therefore this study addresses the lack of evaluation of moving image installations and innovates in terms of the production of animation as a collaborative and interdisciplinary process considering psychological impact. We combine visual research and innovative animated solutions with psychological testing, to generate new knowledge on evaluating non-verbal art through verbal and nonverbal methods.

The intention is to establish animated moving images potential as a tool in the wellbeing sector and expand the audience in general to elevate animation's role in moving image culture.