Online Graphic Novel/Sequential Art Authoring Tools for Therapeutic Storytelling

MYMIC LLC will team with Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and Psychic Bunny Inc. to develop the MyART system, a web-based, therapeutic system for supporting those with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other emotional issues and their care team through the use of graphic art. MyART will be a highly individualized system that emphasizes simple and intuitive interfaces that support the individual user, regardless of: that person"s role in PTSD therapy, their involvement in active therapy, how PTSD is presenting, or their graphic narrative authoring skills. MyART will meet the user where that user is. MyART will enable the user to author professional quality graphical narratives that provide therapeutic benefit. It will include access to guides to assist these creation and therapy processes. It will include progressive art content and advanced management systems to aide access to that content. MyART will include the means to interact with other users as is appropriate to individual therapy. MyART will include an inherent assessment subsystem that will employ a variety of explicit and tacit processes to assess the systems effectiveness and performance in supporting each individual user and of the whole of the system. MyART will be developed with careful considerations to personal privacy and medical ethics.