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Between Us
Project & Role
2 week sprint + exhibition piece using Deepgram, Unity, Meta SDK, C#
Lead + Prototyper collaborating with 3 designers
Lead + Prototyper collaborating with 3 designers
Between Us is an interactive spatial experience that encourages in-situ and post-conversation emotional awareness for conflict resolution between intimate relationships.
By using STT-to-emotional classification pipelines, we aimed to create a new kind of empathy interface, one that allowed users to experience the very emotional space they were themselves taking up, giving form and motion to emotional vulnerability and avoidance in real time.
In designing the experience, the system had to be able to...
In designing the experience, the system had to be able to...
Reflecting emotion type and intensity
Positive emotions trigger green or blue hues...
and negative emotions trigger red or yellow hues.
Reflecting emotional avoidance and vulnerability
Vulnerability invites emotional charge...
While avoidance repels it.
And tracing each conversation into in-retro constellations.
A conversational artefact that could be used after the fact, to learn and encourage retrospection throughout distinct conversations.
A balanced conversation started by one
A one-sided conversation
An entirely one-sided emotional outburst
Debuting our experience at our prototyping exhibition...
Recording of demo on day of
Excited users testing it out
Moving Forward
We moved and produced a concept quickly, and developed something raw that many folks resonated with, in visualizing and tracing emotion over time. Folks found the conversation artefact especially intriguing.
If we had more time and more resources (even just another headset), we would have loved create a more robust input pipeline: detecting vocal tone, color, silence, as well as body language.
We'd also love to talk to experts in the couples therapy and conflict resolution spaces to learn more about what couples struggle with, which techniques work, and ultimately try the tool out on more couples as well as other intimate relationships.
If we had more time and more resources (even just another headset), we would have loved create a more robust input pipeline: detecting vocal tone, color, silence, as well as body language.
We'd also love to talk to experts in the couples therapy and conflict resolution spaces to learn more about what couples struggle with, which techniques work, and ultimately try the tool out on more couples as well as other intimate relationships.
