Collaborative System Design of Natural Landscape Art Therapy and Visual Breathing Therapy for Alleviating Working Adults' Depression

Abstract

Affected by long-term work pressure, working adults suffer from a high incidence of hidden depressive emotions. Traditional psychological intervention is costly and relies on professional sites and hardware, which cannot meet their fragmented, online and low-stress healing demands. Although the restorative characteristics of natural landscape, emotional regulation logic of art therapy, and theoretical value of visual breathing mindfulness intervention have been widely recognized, a mature collaborative healing system integrating the three has not been formed, and there is still a lack of exclusive visual interaction design paradigm for working adults. Targeting at alleviating depressive emotions among working adults, this paper constructs a collaborative design system of natural landscape art therapy and visual breathing therapy. Based on digital mindfulness and slow breathing intervention theories, dynamically scaled ink wash halos are adopted as visual breathing guidance cues following the scientific rhythm of 4-second inhalation and 6-second exhalation, establishing a visual interaction mode that guides users to adjust breathing synchronously. Combined with four types of differentiated natural landscapes, artistic visual creation is implemented to form a lightweight online healing design solution without additional hardware dependence. This study clarifies the internal collaborative mechanism of natural landscape, art therapy and visual breathing guidance at the theoretical level, and completes the systematic integrated design of healing logic, visual symbols, breathing rhythm and landscape narration. It provides a low-threshold and popularizable self-healing approach for working adults, and offers theoretical support and design references for restorative landscape application, affective interaction design and digital art therapy, laying a foundation for future empirical research and practical product development.

Keywords: Working Adults, Depression Intervention, Visual Breathing Therapy, Art Therapy, Digital Healing

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1007354