Empathytis
Prototype for an environment (people and space) which enhances mood, emotional contagion, empathy, connectivity and mindfulness between people.
The discussed areas for concept development were creation of empathy in self and others, confronting duality in personality, ambiguity/bittersweetness and mass empathy.
Different parts of Empathytis-
Head : Contains polarized 2-way mirror that distorts vision differently when looked from inside and outside.
Lights : An arduino controlled RGB LED strip that goes inside the head. It changes between shades of blue and green.
Sound : Person who experiences this can confess something sad and it goes in a feedback with sounds of people who have been there in the past. This process is repeated for people who enter in it next.
Video : While one is going through this experience, a camera is recording the eyes of the person which gets added to a screen containing videos from the past.
Team : Heloise, Nima, Me
