Azile
Emotional Calculator
Azile is an emotional calculator that gives you feedback when you consult it with the problem you run into in life. There are four kinds of words: Issue words, emotional words, action words, and logic words, use them in any order you like and form a dialogue with your reflection self.
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TypeProduct design
UX design User Interface Design Personal Project |
RoleDesign research
UI:A/B testing, word sortting Sketch 3D rendering/Model Building |
Overview
While Anxiety and alienation arise in the hyper-pressure society, It’s a tendency that people don’t have the realization that “self” is a subject that both delicate and complicated. The ability to deal with emotion is the source power of coping with everyday struggle. How to find an ideal life? How to dealing with people around? That's the area of interest where I began my thesis.
It’s estimated that 15 percent of the adult population will experience depression at some point in their lifetime.16.2 million adults in the United States—equaling 6.7 percent of all adults in the country—have experienced a major depressive episode in the past year.
The design is part of my year-long thesis research from 2018-2019 where I look at human emotion and find possibilities in products. The design is a speculative design for emotion reflection, it's a "calculator" that theoretically helps people with their logic and control of emotions.
The design is mostly done in UIC, with my instructor. I did all the resesarch & design & prototyping.
It’s estimated that 15 percent of the adult population will experience depression at some point in their lifetime.16.2 million adults in the United States—equaling 6.7 percent of all adults in the country—have experienced a major depressive episode in the past year.
The design is part of my year-long thesis research from 2018-2019 where I look at human emotion and find possibilities in products. The design is a speculative design for emotion reflection, it's a "calculator" that theoretically helps people with their logic and control of emotions.
The design is mostly done in UIC, with my instructor. I did all the resesarch & design & prototyping.
How it works
Azile is a product for generally everyone when they encounter life problems, it has the simple function as it gives feed back on what you've put in. Using Azile is a reflecting also a learning process, through choosing words to identify emotions, Azile helps you clear your mind and not overwhelmed or stucked by emotion.
Process
1.What should this device look like and what should it do ?
The idea comes from "Not having to say something", it's the shyness and hardship of express one's own feeling. It first came out as an input device. Later I looked deeper into emotion and therapy, It transit into a refelcting device on people's emotional input.
2.How to qualify emotions ?
Psychologists have developed serval emotion sorting methods for trace & search for emotions. By using the different sorting system and combine them into a machine, while user trying to learn it, the interaction process requires them to think more in operation, hence know better what they mean and what their later solutions of emotional feelings.
3. What are and how manys words ?
It seems there's never enough words to express feelings and never enough sentence to tell everyone's story. However, by testing, I was able to extract the most overlaping words (106 of them) and divided them into 4 cataglories-issue, emotional, action and logic words.
With the 106 words, most common feelings can be expressed, meantime it's not too overwhelming for a simple user interface.
With the 106 words, most common feelings can be expressed, meantime it's not too overwhelming for a simple user interface.