UX of Disguise

We had a discussion about different ideas about how we could approach disguise. This curiosity led us to an online resource that enabled us make ’dino’, a dinosaur paper cut-out whose eyes stayed fixed at you with change in perspective. This experiment drove us into the world of disguise with illusion and along with it came a justifiable cause, social anxienty that we would attempt to solve for.

Social anxienty

As a common diagnosis, we focussed on social anxiety as our main point of research. We interviewed some of our friends and a few random people who were more aware about their social anxiety levels if they would welcome the idea of an enclosure for them to utilise within a public space when they felt socially anxious.

Data physicalisation

We conducted research using a party scenario, and asked the participants to mark the spots where they would feel most comfortable while at a party and our results were visualised into a social map as photographed below:

The concept rotated around creating sections at a 45 degree angle with the front walls made up of one-sided mirrors so that the person inside cannot be seen but they can see the outside environment to eliminate outside escapism.

We presented a scaled down prototype of our envisioned design made out of cardboard as walls and foil paper as glass to our classmates and tutors.

Generally, since we had no life size prototype, it was for our audience to completely immerse themselves into our idea, nevertheless ere is a short breakdown of the feedback:

• An enclosure could unknowing foster social anxiety.
• We were tackling an issue that cannot really be solved with two weeks.
• An idea of the sort cannot really solve social anxiety.
• They wished we had a life-size prototype.