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Online Violence Simulation Installation – My Portfolio

Online Violence Simulation Installation

Type of work

Individual project in Wuhan University

Duration

3 months, Jun to Aug 2019

Tools

Rhino, Keyshot, Illustrator, Photoshop

My Role

Product designer, User researcher

Background

Cyber violence has been a common phenomenon since the emergence of social networks. Many people vent their discontent with the real world on the internet and criticise others at will. Many people become depressed and even commit suicide because of violent internet speech. But many people do not realise they have harmed others significantly. This project aims to stimulate the cyber violence process through an interactive device. Some people can recognise that we should restrain our speech and not harm others.

Research

Conclusions

  1. Everyone spends much time online every day. Three quarters of people are likely to comment online.
  2. Everyone cannot tolerate cyber violence happening to themselves or people who knows. People’s attitudes towards Keyboard Warriors are negative.
  3. A small number of people do not realise that their words have hurt others or do not feel sorry for the impact of their comments.
  4. No one wants to be a keyboarder on the Internet.

User Screening Criteria

  1. People who have been cyberbullied.
  2. People who have cyberbullied others.
  3. People who are very popular on the Internet.
  4. People who are my friends or acquaintances in real life.
  5. People who have their own thoughts on cyberbullying.

 

Further analyses and design proposal

Affinity diagramming conclusions

  1. Keyboard man doesn’t know himself well.
  2. Keyboard man is in the habit of commenting online.
  3. Keyboard man’s online comments are mostly unconsidered.
  4. Keyboard man didn’t realize oneself was the promoter of online violence.
  5. Need to divert negative emotions.
  6. It is difficult to be controlled without legal sanction.
  7. A large proportion of the people involved in Internet violence are young, poorly educated and weak at distinguishing right from wrong.
  8. Internet violence accelerates the death of people with mental illness.
  9. For a part of people, network violence is the original desire of catharsis.

Design proposal

  • The device simulates the whole process of online comments. It enlarges the seriousness of network violence and arouse people’s awareness of network language friendliness.
  • It takes two seconds for the selected comments to be uploaded in order for the participants to rethink seriously oneself comments.
  • The jet at the top of the device locks the participants and sprays as punishment, which makes people realize they must responsible for what they said.
  • The microexpressions are captured and fed back to the screen outside the device, which allows people to see in real time the emotional impact of language on a stranger.
  • The device is not a one-off device but improves as a private space to vent emotions in the future.
  • Donating money to UNICEF for children’s mental health, as the adolescent is more likely causing cyberbullying.

 

Design

Visual presentation

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