1.Escaping from the reality | Interactive projection installation
(1) A patient who have sleep problem and mental health problem saw the poster of this installation.The goal of my installation is to help people relax ,using hypnosis treatment while they are in a different peaceful space and help them to define themselves,to raise public awareness as well. So she thought it might help and she went into my installation, a little space with projection of interactive videos.First she got in this little space she found it was interesting and wanted to find out what is going to happen next.She sat down in a chair and she was enjoying the peaceful video projection,when she saw there are many pairs of earphones with labels on it such as pressure relief ,anxiety relief, mental massage,be yourself, self-esteem and sleep etc.She put on “sleep” earphones and started her hypnosis treatment,then she was attracted by the pieces of broken mirrors on the floor because the mirror were reflecting the lights.Then she felt relaxing and sleepy, the treatment worked well for her at last she walked around in this installation and she felt like her brain just have a good rest since she had a long day at work. It was a good experience and she would try it again next time she feel tired.
(2)This teenage boy has anxiety and he always feels uncomfortable to be himself, he wish he could hide somewhere nobody knows him and nobody judges him.When he saw the information of the installation on Instagram he felt that’s exactly what he needed ,escaping from reality, so he attended to the installation.When he first got in it he felt so comfortable to be in there,he looked around and found the videos makes him relax so he lied down on the floor watching the projection and he picked “anxiety relief” earphones, while listening to the audio he felt so relatable . At the end of the treatment he took off the earphones and looked into pieces of mirrors an he realized that this little space is somewhere he can be comfortable and didn’t need to worry about what other people think of him.
2.New media and Mongolian traditional culture | Installation with sound ,video/ gif
(1) A guy who doesn’t know anything about Mongolian culture,so he went to museum to get to know about it. The goal if this installation is using new media to express Mongolian culture and attract people . When he first saw this installation he thought it was nothing special because it just looked like a map of development and description of Mongolian fashion and food etc, but it’s not just a map, then he saw there are some display screens showed some interactive videos and gif expressing the traditional culture. He walked around and checked all the small screens .At the end he found it was interesting getting to know Mongolian fashion and food culture.
(2) An elementary school child had an activity in the museum ,he was looking around at the museum and everything seemed too boring to him because there were tons of words of description.Then he found something interesting , the installation has drawings ,pictures and display screens ,which attracted him ,then he stared to explore the Mongolian culture in front of this installation.But he found it was a little hard for him to understand the videos and gifs because they were too abstract to him ,but he felt like it was a cool and special experience at the museum.
3.Self-driving taxi | Mobile phone application
(1)A girl who has experienced something similar to the Didi taxi murder case in China and she’s been scared to oder a taxi online . When she saw the advertisement of self-driving taxi she thought it might be a safer way to travel ,so she downloaded the App and tried it for the first time.There was a logo popped on when she opened the app,then she did the registration and create a new account,she entered her name, password, phone number,email address and her debit card information ,she thought the registration was pretty easy and fast .Then she clicked on the map and entered the place she wanted to go ,her current location was located automatically,then she pressed “pick me up”. One of the self-driving car that nearby was informed to pick her up right away.She can see where the car is and how long until the car get there.After c couple minutes the self-driving car arrived ,the car started as soon as she pressed on “ready to go”.There were also some other options to control the car through her phone ,she turned on the air conditioner and then clicked on music ,there were thousands of songs .When she arrived at the place ,she clicked on pay online .She had a good experience using the app and the self-driving taxi ,everything seemed pretty easy ,she even enjoyed her favorite music while traveling .
(2) A guy was looking for apps to book taxi,he saw this self-driving taxi app randomly in app store, he read the description and thought maybe he could give it a try ,so he downloaded the app. It took a while to download it because he did’t have a good Wi-Fi anyway he opened the app and found out he couldn’t visit as a visitor,which means he had to do the registration, he felt kind of frustrated to enter all his personal details.Finally he logged in his account .He accessed to the “remote”which is used to control the AC and radio window in the car,he thought he could not do anything with it since he was not in a car,then he checked the “profile” he found that there are vary ways to pay ,such as cash, visa, paypal, apple pay etc. he felt this was quite convenient . However when he tried to access to the “map”and to book a car ,there was something wrong with his internet ,the map kept loading ,it ended up he could not open that page and he deleted this app.
