Proposal of Jackson Pollock's art therapy recommendation system for depression

Abstract

Art therapy is a form of therapeutic practice that uses art in order to relax and cure the symptoms of depression. In this paper, researchers propose an artificial art therapy recommendation system based on an expert system to provide the customized art therapy for the individual patient. Facts and rules about the unique abstract art painting techniques of Jackson Pollock's art therapy are collected to develop a knowledge base and an inference engine for the expert system. The proposed system analyzes the symptoms of a patient from the answers in the questionnaire and provides the most appropriate art therapy to the patient. With the proposed system, the customized art therapy program can be provided at an affordable cost without limitation of time and place. © 2015 SERSC.