Using augmented reality technology to address negative emotional states

A computer-implemented method for using augmented reality to address negative emotional states, comprising:

• receiving an emotional state of a user and one or more images of one or more respective objects observed by the user in an environment using an augmented reality device associated with the user;
• determining, based on a color mapping table and object color rendering criteria, that the one or more objects include at least one negative impact object having a source color that can be changed to improve the emotional state of the user;
• causing the augmented reality device to render the at least one negative impact object with a target color associated with a natural color of the at least one negative impact object assigned to improve the emotional state of the user;
• monitoring a change in the emotional state of the user resulting from the rendering;
• determining a lack of effectiveness of the rendering based on the change in the emotional state of the user;
• altering at least one of the color mapping table and the object color rendering criteria to generate an altered color mapping table and altered object color rendering criteria in response to determining the lack of effectiveness of the rendering;
• and
• causing the augmented reality device to adjust the rendering based on the altered color mapping table and altered object color rendering criteria to obtain an adjusted rendering of the at least one negative impact object to improve the emotional state of the user.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method for using augmented reality to address negative emotional states, the method performed by the computer comprising:

• receiving an emotional state of a user and one or more images of one or more respective objects observed by the user in an environment using an augmented reality device associated with the user;
• determining, based on a color mapping table and object color rendering criteria, that the one or more objects include at least one negative impact object having a source color that can be changed to improve the emotional state of the user;
• causing the augmented reality device to render the at least one negative impact object with a target color associated with a natural color of the at least one negative impact object assigned to improve the emotional state of the user;
• monitoring a change in the emotional state of the user resulting from the rendering;
• determining a lack of effectiveness of the rendering based on the change in the emotional state of the user;
• altering at least one of the color mapping table and the object color rendering criteria to generate an altered color mapping table and altered object color rendering criteria in response to determining the lack of effectiveness of the rendering;
• and
• causing the augmented reality device to adjust the rendering based on the altered color mapping table and altered object color rendering criteria to obtain an adjusted rendering of the at least one negative impact object to improve the emotional state of the user.