My project is mainly concerned anti-human-centered design and focus on the differences between various groups of people, including those who with physical disabilities that are easily overlooked in everyday life. Those patients diagnosed mental illnesses such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, and various other psychological symptoms.
I contextualize the project in the context of today's covid-19 outbreak. Several studies on human mental health and the state of today's outbreak were collected, including an analysis of special conditions and the state of human-human and human-animal relationships, as well as a scenario analysis of how human interaction, mental health, and wellbeing can be applied to human-computer interaction.
I use the collision between dots, the entanglement of dots and lines to express different human relationships. For example, under the choice of depressed people, as dots they may be very resistant to collision with other people and just want to hide, but somehow very much want to be found by other dots and want to be pulled by reliable and secure threads. People in different emotional states will make different choices, and I plan to make an interactive and adjustable interface, so that each group can choose the state that best suits them and name themselves.
I also have created a “Mouse Force” to compare the government's interventions on social interactions during the pandemic. When the mouse gets closer, the particles will be forced away, then the lines which connecting two points will get thinner and then broke. This shows the relationships between people may be edged out or even stopped due to the distance in life. However, they still may rediscover each other and establish stronger connections.
By setting a new class called “particles”, I wrote a particle system which could be interacted with. Among them I used several times “for loop” and “map” functions, to create the working system. Also used trigonometry to make the “mouse force” available for pushing the particles. I have learned from the other module this term and also searched online for the part codes that I’m not sure how to finish. The resources I’ve used have been added the references and comments.
I planned to create a project with Dumb interactions. I chose to use dots and lines and surfaces to refer to the relationships between people in today's society. But human relationships may, or must, have different states and interpretations in the perspectives of different groups of people. By creating an interactive page, it is possible to allow different groups of people to choose the type of style that suits their point of view and then enter different modes of variation. This allows for a much-varied experience and more communication throughout the experiment, where a "dumb" flat interaction can be extended to human brain activity, which forces the power of the mind to join the process.
