Tom has been studying online for more than 4 hours. He is searching and gathering materials for his upcoming group assignment. He’s been feeling quite anxious and overwhelmed since most of the information he found are not related to the assignment.
Tom clicks on the built-in music sharing feature in the online learning platform.A chart immediately pops up showing how many students are currently online and what songs they are currently listening to.It also shows a range of different types of emotions.
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Tom clicks on the anxious tag, a playlist pops out immediately, showing all kinds of songs ranked by popularity. Tom clicks on the the first song since it has the most likes of all songs, and the comments are really positive. The song is a piano song by an artist called Ólafur Arnalds.
Tom feels his anxiety is gradually getting lower as he enjoys the clam and peaceful tunes from the piano. At the end of the song, Tom feels no longer anxious and his mood is lifted completely.
Tom then wants to share this song with other students from his university since it greatly improved his emotion. He clicks on the song from the platform again, gives a like to the song and he finds the sharing button. He clicks on the button and it pops out a list of students who are currently online. He finds Alex, which is a good friend of him,
Tom feels really happy for helping out other students to deal with anxiety.