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SUNDACHE

An Emotion Visualization Tool for Family

Bachelor Graduation Project 

Skills:

Conceptualization, Design Research Process, Prototyping, Graphic Design, User Experience, User Research, Statistics, Programming

Tools:

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Arduino, CorelDraw Visual Studio

Duration:

2017.01 - 2017.07

Family is always the harbour for us to rest, but this harbour often experiences different types of thunderstorms which will break the harbour at the end. One of the common storms is quarrelling. Parents often arguing about trivial things, hurting each other’s feelings and feel so bad afterwards. Quarrelling is always not their intention, but sometimes people just can hardly control their emotions. 

When I was still a child, I felt so scared when my parents start quarrelling, all I could do is to run into my room and hold my teddy bear tightly. However, I want to give the children like my young self an opportunity to express their fear and interfere the quarrelling between their parents. 

Sundache is a wall lamp to is to remind and warn the parents when they want to quarrel, they are creating cracks in their children’s hearts unconsciously.visualise emotions for a family. It is in a shape of the sun, which represents the family, shine for us and support us. Rays of light shine out with great brilliancy when the bonding in the family is close and strong. However, when quarrelling happens, the rays will lose their brightness little by little and the light will blink unstably. Meanwhile, when the child run into his room and hold his teddy bear tightly, the light will know. A crack will slowly grow onto the wall from the lamp indicating that the quarrelling is hurting this family silently. It’s just like a wound which will form inside other’s heart when you quarrel with each other. More cracks will grow if the quarrelling doesn’t stop, and the more cracks grow, the longer time it takes for the light to turn back to the original bright state. Just like the wound in people’s mind, the deeper the wound is, the longer time it takes to recover. 

Sundache - Demo Video
Xiaoying Chen

Sundache - Demo Video

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